Clues for the word "LESSEN"
We've had 36 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 176 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on January 29, 2026.
Definition of lessen
- a. - To make less; to reduce; to make smaller, or fewer; to diminish; to lower; to degrade; as, to lessen a kingdom, or a population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune.
- v. i. - To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened.
Referring Clues
- Reduce
- Let up
- Ease
- Bring down
- Cut down on
- Subside
- Decrease
- Abate
- Minify
- Attenuate
- Allay
- Ameliorate, in a way
- Diminish
- Lighten up
- Tail off
- Relax
- Taper off
- Drop off
- Take from
- Wane
- Depreciate
- Pare down
- Moderate
- Take down a notch
- Mitigate rebuke, say?
- "Make a reduction in class", we're told
- Mitigate
- Cut back
- Sound of course to fade away
- Speaker's moral decline
- Make fewer points
- Antonym of "extend"
- Fall off
- Tone down
- Diminish what's left at Big Bertha's place
- Cut down
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 29, 2026
- Daily American - January 04, 2026
- Mirror Daily - November 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 03, 2025
- LA Times - September 03, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 18, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - July 04, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 22, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 28, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 01, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 06, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 05, 2025
- Daily American - January 02, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 27, 2024
- Family Time - August 25, 2024
- Daily Quick - August 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 23, 2024
- LA Times - July 13, 2024
- Mirror Daily - June 28, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - June 24, 2024
- Mirror Daily - May 18, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - March 16, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 04, 2024
- LA Times - January 28, 2024
- USA Today - January 23, 2024
- Daily American - January 04, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 28, 2023
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