Help
Lessen
Lessen verb - To make smaller in amount, volume, or extent.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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However Shinji wanted to romance her as soon as he met her, he winced when he realized how sad and hurt she was, and he tried to help her to lessen her pain.
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Crutch Character: True to Fire Emblem, you do get early prepromotes who are around to help lessen the stress on your weaker units and help you through the Early Game Hell.
Source: Video Game / Fire Emblem Fates -
Second, they had both failed to see through Hamil's Obfuscating Stupidity to help him as he does his best to lessen the burden of the people of Hispania under the oppression of The Empire, and only thought of rebellion, going as far as planning to use Hamil as puppet.
Source: My Greatest Failure
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