Soften

What do we mean by soften?

To make soft or softer. intransitive verb

To undermine or reduce the strength, morale, or resistance of. intransitive verb

To make less harsh, strident, or critical. intransitive verb

To become soft or softer. intransitive verb

To remove from (natural water) the hardness due to the presence of salts of calcium or magnesium in solution. In the case of temporary hardness, boiling the water or adding to it a carefully determined proportion of calcium hydroxid is used to produce softening; in the case of permanent hardness, sodium carbonate, not in too large excess, may be added. See hardness, 2.

To become soft or less hard.

To become less rude, harsh, severe, or cruel; grow less obstinate or obdurate; become more susceptible of humane feelings and tenderness; relent.

To pass by soft, imperceptible degrees; melt; blend.

To make soft, or more soft.

To mollify; make less fierce or intractable; make more susceptible of humane or fine feelings: as, to soften a hard heart; to soften savage natures.

To make tender; make effeminate; enervate: as, troops softened by luxury.

To make less harsh or severe, less rude, less offensive or violent; mitigate: as, to soften an expression.

To make less glaring; tone down; make less sharp or harsh: as, to soften the coloring of a picture; to soften the outline of something.

To make less strong or intense in sound; make less loud; make smooth to the ear: as, to soften the voice.

To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate. intransitive verb

To make soft or more soft. transitive verb

To render less hard; -- said of matter. transitive verb

To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. transitive verb

To palliate; to represent as less enormous. transitive verb

To compose; to mitigate; to assuage. transitive verb

To make something soft or softer.

To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).

To make less harsh

To become soft or softer

Words that are spelled similarly to soften:
soften, often, softer.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word soften:
harshness, pvc, stool, blow, recoil, stance, cooked, melt, boiling, texture, harsh, grape, skin, hides, wines, melting, edges, dried, washed, tone, hearts, sauce, heated, cooking, leather, taste, impact, attitude, eaten, meat, image, silk, soft, liquid, heating, remove, hair, mixture, hard, easier, wine, enemy, fruit, substance, statements, shock, bit, invasion, tissue, assault, warm, clay, heat, resistance, plastic, easily, towards, landing, smooth, distinctive, effects, lose, preparation, seem.

Words that rhyme with soften:
often, boffin, coffin, goffin, offen, every so often, tophin, christophe in, cough in, cutoff in, dropoff in, falloff in, goff in, gough in, hof in, hoff in, hoffa in, joffe in, kickoff in, la fin, layoff in, ma fin, mof in, molotov in, mustafa in, off in, payoff in, playoff in, runoff in, sa fin, scoff in, standoff in, stoff in, takeoff in, tradeoff in, trough in, turnoff in.

Consonant match to soften:
siphon, syphon, sephen, sea fan, suffern, cerf in, sa fin, safe phone, see fine, serf in, serfin, sofa in, su fin, surf in.

Words that sound like soften:
soften, saufen, siphon, syphon, sephen, sopha, so fine, sphen, surfen, sea fan, waffen, softened, softener, softens, soffa, soughing, safing, seven, sofa, scion, saffron, stiffen, stephan, sofie, sevan, sivan, safa, steffen, steffan, safi, sehen, sea foam, solen, siphoned, sefton, safron, psion, safran, seraphin, sifa, saffa, savan, sewen, cyon, suffa, suffern, sefa, sollen, sofian, sphene, syphoned, siphons, saffran, hoffen, haufen, siouan, staffan, sutphen, sewan, such fun, sufa, sithen, sow in, hyphen, hafen, schaffen, halfen, so then, shaphan, zoffany, surfing, savin, sevin, cne, see in, sewin, sawin, southam, sutphin, cnh, cfn, saugen, sock in, cellphone, cession, cion, celan, cell phone, chaffin, c1, chafin, coffein, cephas, csun, cephus, ciren, cell-phone, cephal, cetin, cephei.