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• up: Always use color to brighten up a dull Web Site.

Object

• complexion: Naturally exfoliate and brighten the complexion with this non-drying, rebalancing preparation.

• sky: Drops inside the cone brighten the sky inside the bow.

• skin: Dissolve dirt, unplug pores, and brighten dull skin.

• eye: To brighten eyes, treat twice daily with All About Eyes.

• agent: The stock must be free of optical brightening agents.

• face: Other faces brightened for The Writer, not for The Man.

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• when: At least the mood brightened when we turned on the radio.

Particle object: up_obj

• corner: Left over mosaic tiles have been used to create a movable work of art to brighten up darker corners.

• evening: These will all be good events to brighten up the winter evenings.

• bit: The weather had brightened up a bit too, the midday sun melting some of the frost.

• room: We look to provide a sea of craft ideas that can brighten up any room.

• street: The idea behind the hanging basket event was to get residents to brighten up the local streets by displaying the baskets outside their homes.

• garden: They help to brighten up the late autumn garden.

Modifying Another Word

• considerably: On arriving in Oxford the weather had brightened considerably.

• instantly: Mix with your favorite foundation or apply direct to the skin to instantly brighten your complexion.

• suddenly: During the outburst event, the normally faint star suddenly brightened, becoming 600,000 times more luminous than our Sun.

• gradually: Mercury lamps strike and gradually brighten as they warm up - they have a distinctive cold blue light.

• certainly: I love its beautiful orange flowers, which certainly brighten up the dull days of February.

• soon: Day 3 The early morning was a little overcast, but soon brightened as the morning progressed.