Synonyms for lightening
light·en·ing

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1. lighteningnoun

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

   Synonyms:
   whitening

2. whitening, lighteningnoun

   changing to a lighter color

   Synonyms:
   whitening

Matched Categories

1. • Change Of Color
   • Descent

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1. List of paraphrases for "lightening":

   lightning, alleviating

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lightening

   Synonyms:
   Dropping

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How to use lightening in a sentence?

1. Kristy Ray:

   We think about their safety in every other aspect, we don’t what them playing if it’s too slick, if there’s lightening, if it’s too hot.

2. Edwin Hubbel Chapin:

   Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

3. Dejan Stojanovic:

   The holy world glows like a lightening bug.

4. Scott C. Holstad:

   caffeine buzz liquid thrill, chills slowly going down kinda wicked 'n edgy like legs spread wide in razor wrapped dreams, like looking glass lust on lsd, like wigged out flesh of lightening fear, like fried out bits of lovers angst, i lust at you, i live for you, i want you here w/ me

5. Frederick Douglas:

   Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without planting up the ground. They want rain without thunder or lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. The struggle may not be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will.