Usually means: Making something lighter or brighter.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word lightening:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. lightening: Merriam-Webster
  2. lightening: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lightening: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lightening: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lightening, lightening: Wordnik
  6. lightening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lightening: Wiktionary
  8. lightening: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. lightening: Dictionary.com
  10. lightening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Lightening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Lightening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. lightening: Rhymezone
  14. Lightening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. lightening: FreeDictionary.org
  16. lightening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. lightening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightening: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightening: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. lightening: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lightening: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  7. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  8. lightening: Medical dictionary
  9. Lightening: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. lightening: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lightening)

noun:  The act or result of making something light or lighter.
noun:  (medicine) The sensation caused by the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity before the onset of labour
noun:  (nautical) The removal of cargo (especially crude oil) from a vessel in order to reduce its draft
noun:  (obsolete or proscribed) Alternative form of lightning [A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.]

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