Soften

·vt To make soft or more soft.

II. Soften ·vt To render less hard;

— said of matter.

III. Soften ·vt To Mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.

IV. Soften ·vi To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.

V. Soften ·vt To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.

VI. Soften ·vt To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.

VII. Soften ·vt To Palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.

VIII. Soften ·vt To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.

IX. Soften ·vt To make tender; to make effeminate; to Enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.

X. Soften ·vt To Compose; to Mitigate; to Assuage.