Lessening
noun, verb
noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A growing lesser; reduction or decrease.
- 2 a change downward wordnet
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of lessen form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Never has youth been exposed to such dangers of both perversion and arrest as in our own land and day. Increasing urban life with its temptations, prematurities, sedentary occupations, and passive stimuli just when an active life is most needed, early emancipation and a lessening sense for both duty and discipline, the haste to know and do all befitting man's estate before its time, the mad rush for sudden wealth and the reckless fashions set by its gilded youth--all these lack some of the regulatives they still have in older lands with more conservative conditions."
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