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Synonyms for softening


Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : saw-fuhn, sof-uhn
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɔ fən, ˈsɒf ən

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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
Example sentences :
  • 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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