The acid gastric juice is a protective agent which considerably lessens the danger of infection by tuberculosis.
The boiling heat while cooking generally destroys the bacilli contained therein and so lessens the danger from this source.
At Viscount Kana's we saw a delightful bit of home life.
Shortly before his death, Mr. Fukuzawa reduced his philosophy to the form of a code of morals which has made a profound impression upon the thought of his country.
An increase in the number of the educated not only tends to the preservation of law and order, but furnishes a larger number fit to be officials and thus lessens the excuse for the employment of foreigners.
In some places the surplus, as will be shown hereafter, is turned into the city fund and to that extent lessens the taxes (or rates as city taxes are called in Great Britain).
When taken in excess it is not easy to define or describe its action, the chief fact relating to it being that it increases the number of the pulse, but lessens the force of the heart.
Ashford having proved experimentally that the number of pulsations of the heart per minute gradually lessens with a falling temperature.
Muhayung ang kaínit sa adlaw ug maalas tris, The sun’s heatlessens at around three in the afternoon.
Ang karga mualkansi sa lutaw sa sakayan, The cargo lessens the amount of freeboard which the boat has.
When we lost the old Irish culture we lost the tradition of courtesy to each other which lessens the difficulties of life and makes it possible to conduct controversy without creating bitter memories.
Ireland will never be content with a system of self-government which lessens its representation in the Imperial Parliament, and still retains for that Parliament control over all-important matters like taxation and trade policy.
This is where the greatest and most serious danger of alcohol comes in, that even in the smallest doses, it begins to deaden us both mentally and morally, and thus lessens our power of control.
Intense and long-continued heat weakens the action of the liver, and thus lessens the supply of bile; and red pepper has the power of stimulating the liver, and so assisting digestion.
Breathing bad air reduces all the processes of the body, lessens vitality; and thus, one in poor health will suffer more from bad air than those who have become thoroughly accustomed to it.
The residue of the first chloroform extract lessens the number of respirations of a frog; the residue of the second and third chloroform extract becomes, by sulphuric acid and bichromate of potash, blue, passing into a permanent red.
Artificial respiration lessens the number and activity of the convulsions, and chloroform, chloral hydrate, or ether, also either prevent or shorten the attacks.
It certainly lessens the elasticity of the wood and weakens it.
Undoubtedly, however, such long submersion lessens the elastic strength of timber after it is dried.
It is also very desirable that the floor of this house should be covered with oilcloth or linoleum, as being soft, it lessens the friction.
It is also necessary that these clothes should not contain any pockets, as this lessens the chance of matches or steel implements being taken upon the danger area.
Suffering is no duty, but where it is necessary to avoid guilt, or to do good; nor pleasure a crime, but where it strengthens the influence of bad inclinations, or lessens the generous activity of virtue.
As a glass which magnifies objects by the approach of one end to the eye, lessens them by the application of the other, so vices are extenuated by the inversion of that fallacy, by which virtues are augmented.
But do not you know that when favours are conferred upon instant and tedious solicitation, that they diminish in their value, and that both the giver loses the grace, and the receiver lessens his pleasure?
The habit of accustoming children to sleep with a light in the room nearly always lessens the depth of their sleep.
In children corporal punishment is often not effective in breaking up habits and tendencies and the motive of fear often lessens self-control and makes conditions worse.
The very telling of many cares lessens the burden of them.
The super-excitation of nerves consequent upon the more or less general erethism that is induced, lessens resistive vitality.
In certain of the painful conditions, due to intra-pelvic conditions, relaxation of muscles by flexion lessens the pain.
This lessens their number and it is well known that frequent repetition is likely to be associated with that deterioration of the physical nature and mental condition which is most to be dreaded.
There are thousands in this country who carry horsechestnuts as a preventive against rheumatism, and some of {386} them, intelligent men and women, are persuaded it lessens their pains and aches.
The humidity of the atmosphere lessens evaporation.
Understanding helps all the conditions and lessens the pain, not actually but mentally, until after a time very little attention is paid to it.
Unfortunately, the paying of attention to them to any great extent lessens somewhat of the disgust naturally aroused by the excretory functions with which they are associated.
Perhaps, too, their well-known tendency to toe outward lessens their liability to turning on their ankle.
Nature evidently intended, in cold climates at least, that men should maintain a certain blanket of fat to help them retain their natural heat, but any excess of fat lessens their resistive vitality by lowering oxidation processes.
Cooking lessens the offensive appearance and qualities of flesh and changes the flavour; thorough cooking also destroys any parasites that may be present.
That an excessive meat diet lessens the vitality of the body and pre-disposes to disease is undoubted, but opinions differ as to how the injury is brought about.
Such faith bears he who loves, and never lessens it for any reason, neither for speech of man nor illusion of the devil, nor change of place.
All this machinery lessens the number of the productive and increases the number of unproductive hands of the nation in Great Britain.
Regardless of whether a particular dispute ends in favor of the laborers or the employer, every strike, lockout, or other interference with industrial coöperation lessens the amount of consumable goods in existence.
This not only lessens the control of party policies by special interests, but it also serves to make the party more responsible to the rank and file of the organization.
The second modifying factor, however, lessens the force of our divorce statistics.
Sidenote: Falls] A fall is, at the best, a dangerous and often a disastrous affair for a woman, whose very position on a horse lessens the chance of escape from such a predicament without injury.
She should hold the reins in both hands, as this lessens the probability of sitting askew, although as she becomes more certain of her seat she may transfer them to the left hand, and carry a whip or crop in the right.
This lessens the likelihood of a skirt becoming caught.
I prefer a box-spur with a rowel, such as men use, but having a guard, which prevents it from catching in the habit, and lessens the probabilities of its unintentionally punishing a horse.
Every added bushel of wheat or bale of cotton raised in the United States improves the chances of European industry, lessens our competition with Europe and increases our market for European wares.
In so far as it goes into competitive industrial enterprises abroad, it lessens the opportunity of labour at home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lessens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
