3K+ Words That Rhyme With BRIGHTENS

• tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells

• (Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon

• small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia

• the largest moon of Neptune

• make more cheerful

• reduce the weight on; make lighter

• become more cheerful

• make more cheerful through the use of color

• become lighter

• alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive

• make tight or tighter

• become tight or tighter

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• narrow or limit

• a New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul; written in AD 58

• make understand

• give spiritual insight to; in religion

• make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear

• become more extreme

• make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity

• increase the level of

• increase the height of

• make (one's senses) more acute

• make more intense, stronger, or more marked

• 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

• pose a threat to; present a danger to

• to utter intentions of injury or punishment against

• to be a menacing indication of something

• the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)

• a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)

• restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war

• distribute in rations, as in the army

• fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions

• large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

• large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail

• obtain or seize by violence

• prey on or hunt for

• eat greedily

• feed greedily

• make sweeter in taste

• make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable

• the act of vibrating

• a shaky motion

• (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

• a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

• lessen the strength of

• become weaker

• destroy property or hinder normal operations

• reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of

• lessen in force or effect

• of or related to or made of wool

• a fabric made from the hair of sheep

• grow worse

• make worse

• a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

• a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

• a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

• any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

• winged monster with the head of an eagle and the body of a lion

• a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

• a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

• someone who adheres to strict religious principles; someone opposed to sensual pleasures

• a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship

• a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum

• a rational motive for a belief or action

• an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• the state of having good sense and sound judgment

• a justification for something existing or happening

• a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion

• decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

• present reasons and arguments

• think logically

• any long object resembling a thin line

• an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

• a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter

• notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming

• (law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management)

• the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment

• a message that departs from the main subject

• a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

• wandering from the main path of a journey

• the period of time during which something continues

• the property of enduring or continuing in time

• continuance in time

• a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines

• the feelings expressed on a person's face

• expression without words

• the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions

• a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations

• the style of expressing yourself

• a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement

• (genetics) the process of expressing a gene

• a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

• the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing

• a person who cares for persons or property

• artwork that helps make something clear or attractive

• showing by example

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used to make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

• a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

• an outward appearance

• a clear and telling mental image

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving

• all the copies of a work printed at one time

• (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster

• an impressionistic portrayal of a person

• the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

• confine as if in a prison

• the act of starting a new operation or practice

• the ceremonial induction into a position

• a physician specializing in obstetrics

• an instance of oratory

• a person of refined upbringing and manners

• a member of the aristocracy

• befitting a person of noble origin

• belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

• a state of forcible subjugation

• (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

• the act of repressing; control by holding down

• the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance

• a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell

• a garden plant of the genus Antirrhinum having showy white or yellow or crimson flowers resembling the face of a dragon

• any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

• a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major

• van used by police to transport prisoners

• a child's four-wheeled toy cart sometimes used for coasting

• a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

• the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action

• a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty

• make broader

• extend in scope or range or area

• vary in order to spread risk or to expand

• become broader

• an abject coward

• lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful

• make (to feel) fresh

• become or make oneself fresh again

• make fresh again

• An elongated block of the Earth's crust, bounded by faults, that has dropped relative to the surrounding area.

• become broader or wider or more extensive

• make (clothes) larger

• make wider

• extend in scope or range or area

• a large number or amount

• a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe

• move faster

• make keen or more acute

• give life or energy to

• show signs of life

• give new life or energy to