No words can lessen your deep sadness.

That makes me feel good, and also lessens my workload.

Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.

The 1987 international Montreal Protocol banned many of the chlorine compounds used in refrigerants and aerosols, like hairspray, to lessen the damage. Since then, the size of the ozone hole has slowly declined but remains large enough to produce significant ozone loss.

The noise lessened gradually.

Even your faults do not lessen my respect for you, and in friendship this is what counts.

Pain is not lessened by crying.

When you are cheerful, books can increase your happiness; when you are sad, books can lessen your sorrow.

She tried to lessen her expenses.

Therefore in the six hundredth and first year, the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were lessened upon the earth, and Noah opening the covering of the ark, looked, and saw that the face of the earth was dried.