less
— Adverb
– English
～ comparative of little; "she walks less than she should"; "he works less these days"
less
— Adjective
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～ (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree; "of less importance"; "less time to spend with the family"; "a shower uses less water"; "less than three years old"
less
— Adjective
– English
～ (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality; "no less than perfect"
less
— Adjective
– English
～ (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer; "less than three weeks"; "no less than 50 people attended"; "in 25 words or less"
lessee
— Noun
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～ a tenant who holds a lease
lessen
— Verb
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～ make smaller; "He decreased his staff"
lessen
— Verb
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～ decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
lessen
— Verb
– English
～ wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"
lessened
— Adjective
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～ decreased in severity; made less harsh
lessened
— Adjective
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～ impaired by diminution
lessening
— Noun
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～ a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
lesseps
— Noun
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～ French diplomat who supervised the construction of the Suez Canal (1805-1894)
lesser galangal
— Noun
– English
～ Chinese perennial with pyramidal racemes of white flowers and pungent aromatic roots used medicinally and as flavoring
lesser burdock
— Noun
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～ a plant that is ubiquitous in all but very acid soil; found in most of Europe and North Africa
lesser bullrush
— Noun
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～ reed maces of America, Europe, North Africa, Asia
lesser calamint
— Noun
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～ low-growing strongly aromatic perennial herb of southern Europe to Great Britain; naturalized in United States
lesser anteater
— Noun
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～ small toothless anteater with prehensile tail and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South America and Central America
lesser duckweed
— Noun
– English
～ of temperate regions except eastern Asia and Australia
lesser centaury
— Noun
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～ common European glabrous annual centaury with flowers in dense cymes
lesser hemlock
— Noun
– English
～ European weed naturalized in America that resembles parsley but causes nausea and poisoning when eaten