Lighten [verb]

Everyone was looking for an opportunity to celebrate and lighten the load.

Thou art the help of Christians; lighten our tribulations, and help us with motherly intercession at the throne of thy divine Son.

Obviously, the very least they could do, was to try by all means in their power, to lighten the burden they had laid upon her.

Pretty soon it darkened up, and begun to thunder and lighten; so the birds was right about it.

Elvedon was rather like that, though the present tenants have managed to lighten it a good deal.

If the rollways could be definitely cleared once, the work would lighten all along the line.

It is the business of the teacher to lighten the labors of to-day by bright visions of to-morrow.

Quoth he, "O my son, give me the lamp and lighten thyself; maybe it is that which hindereth thee."

Nothing, for a while, could lighten her deadly weight of sorrow.

Then, like a stroke of humour, an incident occurred to lighten the whole beach.