lightened

After my aunt told me her story — and my cousin picked her jaw up off the floor — something at that table shifted and lightened.

Growing cassava didn't completely eliminate people's need to search the forest for food, but it lightened the load, providing a plentiful, reliable food supply close to home.

There was a feeling that, in ditching their partners, Team Yousaf had lightened the load.

Caddie Brennan Little had lightened the mood around the Augusta National by chatting to Weir about the stars of WWE wrestling.

Plastics revolutionized medicine with life-saving devices, made space travel possible, lightened cars and jets—saving fuel and pollution—and saved lives with helmets, incubators, and equipment for clean drinking water.