See Also: lightening(medicine)
Lightening(health)
lightening(1)(dictionary)
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lightening(2) (iou)



lightening noun2. LME.
[from LIGHTEN verb1 + -ING1.]
The action of LIGHTEN verb1; an instance of this; Medicine a drop in the level of the womb during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the foetus engages in the pelvis.