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Synonyms for softening
| Grammar : Adj, noun |
| Spell : saw-fuhn, sof-uhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɔ fən, ˈsɒf ən |
Top 10 synonyms for softening
Définition of softening
Origin :- late 14c., "to mitigate, diminish" (transitive), from soft (adj.) + -en (1). Meaning "to make physically soft" is from 1520s; intransitive sense of "to become softer" is attested from 1610s. Soften up in military sense of "weaken defenses" is from 1940. Related: Softened; softening.
- adj relaxing
- noun process to make softer
- Is there no reward, no means of palliating the injury, and of softening your heart?
- Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper
- I was hoping she'd have a softening influence on you, and make gentlemen of you.
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- What if his mother had an old reason she well knew for softening to this poor girl!
- Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens
- A blessing on them as they go, softening our hard, unloving hearts!
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 » by Various
- This increases the susceptibility to softening from storm water or ground water.
- Extract from : « American Rural Highways » by T. R. Agg
- No giving up, no softening, no forgiveness; but blood and iron to the end.
- Extract from : « Blood and Iron » by John Hubert Greusel
- With that her face darkened, not in a softening melancholy, but old bitterness and defeat.
- Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown
- She stopped a moment, and looked at him with softening eyes.
- Extract from : « The Greater Power » by Harold Bindloss
- Not the least was that of softening hearts and opening purses.
- Extract from : « Gathering Jewels » by James Knowles and Matilda Darroch Knowles
- And the softening twilight fell upon the doomed but unconscious cities.
- Extract from : « Fair to Look Upon » by Mary Belle Freeley
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