Definition of Soften

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Soften

To make soft or more soft.

To render less hard; -- said of matter.

To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.

To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.

To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.

To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.

To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.

To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.

To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.

To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.

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Soften Quotations

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby

As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
Lord Byron

Constructive criticism is about finding something good and positive to soften the blow to the real critique of what really went on.
Paula Abdul

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
William James

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver

Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
Willie Aames

I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.
Silvio Berlusconi

Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Soften Translations

soften in French is adoucissez, adoucissent, adoucis, attendris
soften in German is mildern, aufweichen, aufweichen
soften in Spanish is ablandar

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