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Definition of Soften

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. Related Definitions: An, As, Assuage, Become, By, Coloring, Compose, Down, Effeminate, Enervate, Enormous, Fault, Fierce, Glaring, Grating, Hard, Harsh, Intractable, Less, Luxury, Make, Matter, Mitigate, Mollify, More, Obdurate, Of, Offensive, Opposite, Or, Palliate, Picture, Quality, Render, Represent, Rude, Said, Severe, Soft, Soften, Softened, Tender, The, To, Tone, Violent, Voice

Soften Quotations Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. William Congreve 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 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 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 The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. Bryant H. McGill

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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