Usually means: Makes color or mood brighter.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. lightens: Merriam-Webster
  2. lightens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. lightens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Lightens, lightens: Wordnik
  5. lightens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. lightens: Wiktionary
  7. lightens: Dictionary.com
  8. lightens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. lightens: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightens: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lightens: Idioms

(Note: See lighten as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (lighten)

verb:  (transitive) To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
verb:  (intransitive) To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
verb:  (intransitive, now rare) To flash lightning, to give off lightning.
verb:  (transitive) To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
verb:  (archaic) To illuminate with knowledge.
verb:  (transitive) To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
verb:  (transitive) To make light or lighter in weight.
verb:  (transitive) To make less serious or more cheerful.
verb:  (intransitive) To become light or lighter in weight.
verb:  (intransitive) To become less serious or more cheerful.
verb:  To descend; to light.
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