Synonyms of lessen
- 1 Syllable
- thin, bate, clip, drain, bant, crop, ease, cut, shrunk, shrank, shrink
- 2 Syllables
- weaken, soften, peter, bating, softens, contract, whiting, reefing, dwindling, deadens, retard, eased, slackens, whited, shortens, curtails, whittled, stunting, close, taper, narrow, impairs, allayed, deaden, cooling, deduct, ebbing, banting, bated, disbars, downplayed, ebbed, benching, allaying, slacking, whittle, lighten, shorten, slowed, easing, curtail, allay, downplaying, paling, tapers, corked, dwindle, poor-mouth, benched, slaked, disbar, impair, whittling, slowing, weakens, corking, uplight, dwindled, peters, downplay, slaking, slake, slacken, slacked
- 3 Syllables
- minify, truncate, underplaying, mollify, abridging, curtailing, erode, dilute, defused, tempering, receded, mollifying, contracted, disbarred, deducting, assuage, retarding, mollifies, mollified, weakening, reduce, deducted, decreased, bankrupting, defuse, rebated, contracting, decrease, shortened, recede, curtailed, depleting, appeasing, impairing, bankrupted, receding, decreasing, consumed, diminish, assuaged, slackened, featherbed, diluting, underplay, degrade, decline, deadening, tempered, untighten, softened, palliate, soft-pedal, tapered, appeased, deplete, abridged, assuaging, back-water, defusing, abridge, petering, underplayed, rebating, limiting, downsize, deadened, abate
- 4 Syllables
- depreciated, tenderizing, diminishing, minimized, diminished, attenuate, attenuating, featherbedding, attenuated, moderate, tenderize, moderated, moderating, minimize, mitigated, etherize, minimizing, diminishes, devaluated, retrocede, amputate, etherizing, depreciating, mitigating, understate, understated, pejorate, etherized, devaluate, mitigate, depreciate
- 5 Syllables
- catheterize, devalorize, deteriorate, destabilize, destabilized, degenerating, delimitate, infrigidate, miniaturize, miniaturizing, deteriorating, commercialize, destabilizing, commercialized, de-escalate