What is the correct spelling of the word lightening/lighning as per the English oxford dictionary?

lightening (maybe the other one is just old english...)What is the correct spelling of the word lightening/lighning as per the English oxford dictionary?
lightning
LightningWhat is the correct spelling of the word lightening/lighning as per the English oxford dictionary?
Lightning
never heard of the second word sorry.

I think you would say the first one if you were lightening your hairWhat is the correct spelling of the word lightening/lighning as per the English oxford dictionary?
Lightning I think



Lightnin' Hopkins spells it like that, he was playing with a guy named "thunder" something, so he chose that
lightning



鈥?noun 1 the occurrence of a high-voltage electrical discharge between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash. 2 before another noun very quick: lightning speed.



鈥?ORIGIN from LIGHTEN2
you mean lightening/lightning - they mean different things



1) lightning and thunder

2) the dawn sky was lightening.
both are correct.

Lightening ...to lighten something

Lightning.... appears in a stormy sky
Two different words:



Lightening the load you carry will make easier going for you.



Lightning lit up the sky.
Lightning, as in thunder and lightning.

Lightening, as in lightening (making lighter) a burden.
They're two different words. According to the OED:

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lightening |藞l墨tn-i ng; 藞l墨tni ng | noun a drop in the level of the uterus during the last weeks of pregnancy as the head of the fetus engages in the pelvis.

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lightning |藞l墨tni ng | noun the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder : a tremendous flash of lightning. 鈥?poetic/literary a flash or discharge of this kind : the sky was a mass of black cloud out of which lightnings flashed. verb [ intrans. ] (of the sky) emit a flash or discharge of this kind : what's a person supposed to do when it starts to lightning? adjective [ attrib. ] very quick : a lightning cure for his hangover | galloping across the country at lightning speed.
Both words are genuine and correct %26amp; they have different meanings; lightening means getting or making lighter, and lightning is as in thunder and lightning.
Lightning
It depends on what meaning you're using.
Thunder and lightning

Lightening is the act of making something lighter.
they are two different words

1) we need to change the lighting in the room,

2)the colour needs lightening