17K+ Words That Rhyme With BRIGHTENING

• changing to a lighter color

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• darkened by clouds

• the act of making something tighter

• abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light

• the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more

• an increase in width

• a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park

• the act of making something wider

• the act of waking

• an event that happens

• the act of hearing attentively

• first or beginning

• an open or empty space in or between things

• a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise

• becoming open or being made open

• the first performance (as of a theatrical production)

• the act of opening something

• opportunity especially for employment or promotion

• the initial part of the introduction

• a possible alternative

• an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

• a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess

• the first of a series of actions

• coming to full development; becoming mature

• acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time

• the act of making something wider

• the action of making broader

• an increase in width

• something added to foods to make them taste sweeter

• an improvement that makes something more agreeable

• the act of adding a sweetener to food

• the act of rationing

• thinking that is coherent and logical

• endowed with the capacity to reason

• problem solving that involves numbers or quantities

• a bill for an amount due

• the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order

• the process of showing signs of life

• the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus

• the act of accelerating; increasing the speed

• changing for the worse

• process of changing to an inferior state

• changing something with the result that it becomes worse

• reaching a higher intensity

• awaken once again

• straighten up or out; make straight

• make straight

• get up from a sitting or slouching position

• put (things or places) in order

• straighten by unrolling

• make straight or straighter

• descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped

• changing to a lighter color

• the act of making something slightly wet

• the act of waking

• make (to feel) fresh

• become or make oneself fresh again

• make fresh again

• (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream

• of advancing the ball by running

• executed or initiated by running

• (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team

• the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace

• the state of being in operation

• the act of administering or being in charge of something

• the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

• continually repeated over a period of time

• measured lengthwise

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

• subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter

• fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods

• act of decreasing in length

• failing to inform or clarify

• not edifying

• not unfriendly or threatening

• giving a Christian name at baptism

• changing to a darker color

• becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over

• loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss

• reflecting light

• causing or able to cause nausea

• becoming stronger

• the act of increasing the strength of something

• the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance

• the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill

• a request for information

• perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)

• marked by or given to doubt

• showing curiosity

• tending to return to an earlier state

• tending to be turned back

• commanding attention

• causing great astonishment and consternation

• causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility

• strikingly beautiful or attractive

• tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance

• enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement

• becoming weaker

• the act of reducing the strength of something

• causing debilitation

• moderating by making pain or sorrow weaker

• made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

• unrestrained by convention or propriety

• face with defiance or impudence

• dress up garishly and tastelessly

• make glad or happy

• become glad or happy

• To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).

• (obsolete except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something).

• To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.

• To enquire; to seek information.

• The act of one who harkens or listens.

• To make, or to become harsh; render hard and rough.

• To render peevish, morose, or austere.