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verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
to become or make bright or brighter.
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| 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 scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
Etymonline
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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