be slight

to lighten

be slight; swift; trifling; be slight; be abated; be swift; trifling; shew oneself swift; appear trifling; be lightly esteemed; curse; make contemptible; be cursed; make light; lighten; treat with contempt; shake; whet; shook themselves

to be (causatively, make) light, literally (swift, small, sharp, etc.) or figuratively (easy, trifling, vile, etc.)

abate, make bright, bring into contempt, (ac-) curse, despise, (be) ease(-y, -ier), (be a, make, make somewhat, move, seem a, set) light(-en, -er, -ly, -ly afflict, -ly esteem, thing), [idiom] slight(-ly), be swift(-er), (be, be more, make, re-) vile, whet.