How to pronounce “lighten”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (transitive) To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
• (intransitive) To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
• (intransitive, now rare) To flash lightning, to give off lightning.
• (transitive) To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
• (archaic) To illuminate with knowledge.

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