Betekenis van:
lighten

to lighten
Werkwoord
  • mbt. licht
  • make lighter or brighter

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to lighten
Werkwoord
    • reduce the weight on; make lighter
    "she lightened the load on the tired donkey"

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    to lighten
    Werkwoord
    • oplichten
    • become lighter
    "The room lightened up"

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    to lighten
    Werkwoord
      • alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
      "lighten the burden of caring for her elderly parents"

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      to lighten
      Werkwoord
        • make more cheerful
        "the conversation lightened me up a bit"

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        to lighten
        Werkwoord
          • become more cheerful
          "after a glass of wine, he lightened up a bit"

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          Voorbeeldzinnen

          1. Lighten up.
          2. He tried to lighten the mood.
          3. It was just a joke. Lighten up!
          4. For God's sake Bob, lighten up.
          5. We have to lighten the load.
          6. Wait! I've got it: Anthony, Lighten your anxiety.
          7. He needs a few jokes to lighten up his talk.
          8. He sang a song to lighten the atmosphere.
          9. Derogations are granted by the Commission and aim to lighten some reporting rules provided for in the Regulation.
          10. Member States may reduce the frequency of such inspections or lighten them, as appropriate, where an electronic monitoring and control system is in place.
          11. Member States may reduce the frequency of such inspections or lighten them as appropriate, where an electronic monitoring and control system is in place.
          12. The latter entails assessing whether the measures in question lighten for Tieliikelaitos the burdens normally assumed in an undertaking’s budget and are therefore to be regarded as an economic advantage which it would not have obtained under normal market conditions.
          13. Its aim is to temporarily lighten effects of the rules on the country’s economy but it does not allow derogations from the EU’s acquis in other policy areas such as environmental legislation.
          14. Article 87(1) EC is aimed merely at prohibiting advantages for certain undertakings and the concept of aid covers only measures which lighten the burdens normally assumed in an undertaking's budget and which are to be regarded as an economic advantage which the recipient undertaking would not have obtained under normal market conditions.
          15. Moreover, as stated in recital 93, the concept of aid in Article 87(1) of the EC Treaty covers only measures which lighten the burdens normally assumed in an undertaking’s budget and which are to be regarded as an economic advantage which the recipient undertaking would not have obtained under normal market conditions [41].