What is "lessens"

Usage examples of "lessens".

We may therefore infer that any cause which renders the growth of the radicles either slower or more rapid than the normal rate, lessens or annuls the sensibility of their tips to contact.

We may therefore conclude that grease on the tips of the radicles of this Phaseolus somewhat delays and lessens the geotropic curvature of the part which ought to bend most.

Babylon violated lessens Alexander, Rome enchained lessens Caesar, Jerusalem murdered lessens Titus, tyranny follows the tyrant.

The blue bulb reaches back into her mind, remembers the feel of the bungalow, the exact amount of pull it exerts, how it lessens when she turns away from it, increases when she turns back.

Her trembling lessens until finally her eyelids sag, but minutes later she wakes, crying out, tears streaming down her cheeks.

In January 1947, a commercial fishing boat vanished (although the fact that its captain owed money to sixteen creditors perhaps lessens the mystery somewhat).

And the paperback revolution, by making inexpensive editions available everywhere, lessens the scarcity value of the book at precisely the very moment that the increasingly rapid obsolescence of knowledge lessens its longterm informational value.