There is wood beside you, the younger man continued, and the fire burns bright. The morning is gray, and the cold has lessened. It will snow presently. Even now it is snowing.
That day he lessened the distance between him and the ship by three miles. The next day he traveled only two miles, because he was now dragging himself on his hands and knees as Bill had done.
A second look showed her that the living eyes, under the bushy eyebrows, were kinder even than the painted ones, and there was a sly twinkle in them, which lessened her fear a good deal.
" Yeah...yeah, you too." She walked away from him and, as he watched her go, he found that the terrible weight in his stomach seemed to have lessened slightly.
They believe that their own humanity would be lessened if they left pregnant women, children, and men young and old to struggle in the weather on their own.
Next up is Bradykinesia is slow movement, hypokinesia is lessened movement, and akinesia is an absence of movement, and all three result from difficulty initiating movements.
Our fetishisation of meat has not lessened — on the contrary, forecasters predict a rapid increase in meat consumption in developing countries over the next decade.
You could have shortened the uncomfortable circumstances in which Ruburt found himself involved, you could have lessened the wall of stupidity that Ruburt tried to climb.