"slighten" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "His smile slightened as if he knew they talked of him.",
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          "text": "With tissue I softened my rouge, slightened my lipstick; studying my redesigns in my green compact's mirror I marveled, seeing yet another strange face.",
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          "text": "[…] as God forbid that anyone should hint a slightening word of what our sons and brothers are doing just now, and doing for us!",
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          "ref": "1997, Rajendra Kumar Sharma, Sociological Methods and Techniques, page 257:",
          "text": "They may take ill or feel slightened for not having been approached directly.",
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          "ref": "1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):",
          "text": "It is an odious wisdom to blaspheme, / Much more to slighten, or deny their powers",
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        "(transitive) To slight."
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