| This can be difficult with large trees, but if you can hit the undersides with jets of water or insecticidal soap, you may lessen the problem. |
| The proposed legislative proposals will do nothing to lessen that perception. |
| The court held that subsequent acts of repair should lessen the jury's final judgement about the reprehensibility of an act. |
| Politicians from North and South redesigned popular sovereignty to lessen sectional tensions. |
| These drugs are used to prevent angina pectoris, to lessen the risk of a second heart attack and to treat congestive heart failure. |
| Inevitably, they saw less of each other, but that did not lessen his family's wariness. |
