LESSENED Synonyms

• made less in size or amount or degree

• (of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use

• impaired by diminution

• (of musical intervals) reduction by a semitone of any perfect or minor musical interval

• made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

• (of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear

• below the surround or below the normal position

• made less severe or intense

• made less in size or amount or degree

• well below normal (especially in price)

• make less active or intense

• become less in amount or intensity

• place restrictions on

• terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent

• a change downward

• a process of becoming smaller or shorter

• the amount by which something decreases

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

• the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve

• the season when the leaves fall from the trees

• a sudden drop from an upright position

• a downward slope or bend

• a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity

• a sudden decline in strength or number or importance

• a movement downward

• the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)

• the time of day immediately following sunset

• when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat

• a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity

• a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity

• descend in free fall under the influence of gravity

• move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way

• pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind

• come under, be classified or included

• fall from clouds

• suffer defeat, failure, or ruin

• die, as in battle or in a hunt

• touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly

• be captured

• occur at a specified time or place

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• yield to temptation or sin

• lose office or power

• to be given by assignment or distribution

• move in a specified direction

• be due

• lose one's chastity

• to be given by right or inheritance

• come into the possession of

• fall to somebody by assignment or lot; passed

• be inherited by

• slope downward

• lose an upright position suddenly

• drop oneself to a lower or less erect position

• fall or flow in a certain way

• assume a disappointed or sad expression

• be cast down

• come out; issue

• be born, used chiefly of lambs

• begin vigorously

• go as if by falling

• come as if by falling

• make become smaller

• wear off or die down

• sink to a lower level or form a depression

• sink down or precipitate

• descend into or as if into some soft substance or place