Mollify

['mɒlɪfaɪ] or ['mɑlɪfaɪ]

Definition

(verb.) make less rigid or softer.

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Definition

(v. t.) To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.

(v. t.) To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Soften, make soft.[2]. Appease, pacify, compose, soothe, tranquillize, calm, quiet.[3]. Assuage, mitigate, moderate, ease, allay, abate, temper, attemper, relieve, lessen, qualify, dull, blunt.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

[See MOLEST]

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Definition

v.t. to make soft or tender: to assuage: to calm or pacify:—pa.p. moll′ified.—adjs. Moll′ient serving to soften: assuaging; Moll′ifiable.—ns. Mollificā′tion act of mollifying: state of being mollified: mitigation; Moll′ifier; Moll′ine a base for ointments used in skin diseases a soft soap mixed with excess of fat and glycerine.—adj. Mollipī′lose having soft plumage.—n. Mollipilos′ity fleecines fluffiness.—adj. Mollit′ious luxurious.—n. Moll′itude.

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