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
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
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
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
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
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving
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
Pray for your mate. Ask God to soften your heart and show you ways to be a better spouse.
Willie Aames
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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