Usually means: Reducing the intensity or amount.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. lessening: Merriam-Webster
  2. lessening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lessening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lessening, lessening: Wordnik
  5. lessening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lessening: Wiktionary
  7. Lessening, lessening: Dictionary.com
  8. lessening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Lessening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. lessening: Rhymezone
  11. Lessening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. lessening: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. lessening: FreeDictionary.org
  14. lessening: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. lessening: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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noun:  A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.

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