lightening

IPA: ɫˈaɪtʌnɪŋ

The act or result of making something light or lighter.
(medicine) The sensation caused by the descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity before the onset of labour
(nautical) The removal of cargo (especially crude oil) from a vessel in order to reduce its draft
(obsolete or proscribed) Alternative form of lightning [A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.]

Examples of "lightening" in Sentences

(The Philipines, as one example, sells many skin lightening soaps.)
Cholera strikes so fast it is sometimes called the lightening disease.
Begin lightening raids on predatory businesses and apprehending all illegal immigrants in the workplace.
Nevertheless, plenty of light flooded the space from two ornate chandeliers and all the lightening from the camera crews.
For this time around, I had no interest in lightening the recipe (I love bacon and it really makes this soup), but I did want to get away from the canned beans.
Our various agencies have apparently developed excellent communication and raport with each other so that solving these incidents is happening in lightening time!
She is also technically superb and can move like lightening from the most powerful empathy to conveying emotions: her humour is astringent but never cynical: she is a lovely person and one of my dearest friends.
That's why Johnson and Johnson makes billions selling dangerous and toxic skin lightening cream to beautiful brownskinned women in Africa and India - and that's why they and the other drug companies make billions selling useless (and often dangerous) weight loss products to healthy American women.