"lighten someone's purse" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "lightening someone's purse",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "lightened someone's purse",
      "tags": [
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        "past"
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          "ref": "1883, Howard Pyle, chapter V, in The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood […], New York, N.Y.: […] Charles Scribner’s Sons […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "For when Robin Hood caught a baron or a squire, or a fat abbot or bishop, he brought them to the greenwood tree and feasted them before he lightened their purses.",
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        "to take money from someone."
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          "take"
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          "money",
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        "(idiomatic) to take money from someone."
      ],
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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      "form": "lightening someone's purse",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "lightened someone's purse",
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