brighten
Use Brighten in a sentence
n verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
to become or make bright or brighter.
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brighten (ˈbraɪtən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to make or become bright or brighter |
| 2. | to make or become cheerful |
| 'brightener | |
| —n | |
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Brighten
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Word Origin & History
brighten
O.E. *beorhtnian "to make bright" (see bright). Intrans. sense, "to become brighter," attested from c.1300. Figurative use from 1590s.
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Example sentences
My excuse is that winter is a-coming and any way of getting cyclists to brighten up their rides is a good one.
Flaming leaves brighten the hillsides with their changing colors in the fall.
If they do as they say, the unemployment picture will brighten considerably.
Their eyes began to sparkle, and their ugly faces to brighten, with an expression of strange pleasure.
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