Usually means: Reduces the intensity or amount.
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  1. lessens: Merriam-Webster
  2. lessens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lessens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lessens, lessens: Wordnik
  5. lessens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lessens: Wiktionary
  7. lessens: Dictionary.com
  8. lessens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. lessens: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lessens: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lessen)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To become less.
▸ Also see lessen


Opposite:
increases, augments, amplifies, enhances

Phrases:
lessens gradually, lessens the value of, lessens the quality of, lessens significance, lessens my interest, more...

Adjectives:
current, first, other, main, such, wise, whole, cold, deceased



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Opposite:
increases, augments, amplifies, enhances

Phrases:
lessens gradually, lessens the value of, lessens the quality of, lessens significance, lessens my interest, more...

Adjectives:
current, first, other, main, such, wise, whole, cold, deceased




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