Soften

['sɒf(ə)n] or ['sɔfn]

Definition

(verb.) become soft or softer; 'The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it'.

(verb.) make soft or softer; 'This liquid will soften your laundry'.

(verb.) make (images or sounds) soft or softer.

Checked by Claudia--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To make soft or more soft.

(v. t.) To render less hard; -- said of matter.

(v. t.) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.

(v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.

(v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.

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

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

(v. t.) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.

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

(v. i.) To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.

Inputed by Ethel

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Intenerate, melt, touch, make tender, make soft.[2]. Assuage, appease, mitigate, moderate, alleviate, soothe, mollify, quiet, calm, still, quell, allay, relieve, ease, abate, temper, qualify, attemper, dull, lessen, blunt.

v. n. Grow soft.

Checker: Wyatt

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Mollify, palliate, compose, mitigate, assuage, dulcify, lenity, yield,macerate, humanize, abate, moderate

ANT:Harden, indurate, aggravate, excite, infuriate, consolidate

Editor: Percival