lightening

[ UK /lˈa‍ɪtənɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫaɪtənɪŋ/ ]

NOUN

changing to a lighter color
descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped

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A reaction induced on the laboratory bench may, like yeast in inert dough, leaven the whole of mankind, lightening and lifting it to heights undreamed of by its ancestors. The Contribution of Creative Chemistry to the Humanities
We live in Georgia where it gets unreasonably hot in the summers....need less to say my story involves, lightening, a burned out transformer, an air conditioner crame and 98 degree heat. Cramer - French Word-A-Day
And a most enlightening experience it is. Times, Sunday Times
In once lightening movement she threw a dagger from her boot towards the soldier.
He curls his lip to add that he found Psystar's cases "unenlightening". Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
Seeing as we all knew who won it months ago, it was spectacularly unexciting, unenlightening and unentertaining. Times, Sunday Times
The first time lightening application should be applied approximately one half to one third of an inch from the scalp to the ends.
And speaking of science, the story uses a fair amount of real, present-day science which is delineated from the fictional in an enlightening afterward. REVIEW: Twistor by John Cramer
Intertextuality, collage, declared and covert citations are instrumental and often enlightening in her 'decreations'. The Times Literary Supplement
To lump all these countries together is unenlightening. Times, Sunday Times