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• soften up — 1. To lessen resistance in (informal) 2. To wear down by continuous shelling and bombing • • • Main Entry: ↑soft * * * ˌsoften ˈup [transitive] [present tense …   Useful english dictionary

• Soften — Sof ten, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Softened}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Softening}.] To make soft or more soft. Specifically: [1913 Webster] (a) To render less hard; said of matter. [1913 Webster] Their arrow s point they soften in the flame. Gay. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• soften — UK US /ˈsɒfən/ verb ► [I] FINANCE, STOCK MARKET if demand, a price, a market, etc. softens, it stops increasing or it goes down: »Share prices softened with continued worries about the country s economic recovery. »Although demand softened again… …   Financial and business terms

• soften — [v] calm, soothe abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, become tender, bend, cushion, diminish, disintegrate, dissolve, ease, enfeeble, give, knead, lessen, lighten, lower, mash, mellow, melt, mitigate, moderate, modify, moisten, mollify,… …   New thesaurus

• soften — Synonyms and related words: abate, absorb the shock, adjust to, affect, agree, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, anesthetize, appease, assent, assuage, attemper, baffle, bank the fire, benumb, blunt, blur, box in, break the fall, castrate,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• soften up — Synonyms and related words: abate, affect, attenuate, beleaguer, bend, beset, besiege, bias, blarney, blockade, blunt, butter, butter up, color, cramp, cripple, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, devitalize, dispose, dull, ease, encircle …   Moby Thesaurus

• soften — verb 1) she tried to soften the blow of new service cuts Syn: alleviate, ease, relieve, soothe, take the edge off, assuage, cushion, moderate, mitigate, palliate, diminish, blunt, deaden 2) the winds softened …   Thesaurus of popular words

• soften — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To become soft] Syn. dissolve, lessen, diminish, disintegrate, become tender, become mellow, thaw, melt, moderate, bend, give, yield, relax, relent. Ant. stiffen*, solidify, freeze. 2. [To make soft] Syn. mollify, mellow,… …   English dictionary for students

• soften — v 1. melt, mellow, touch, move, affect; gentle, meeken, disarm, unman, unnerve, emasculate; win over, conciliate. 2. mollify, tame, smooth down; relax, loosen, slacken; pacify, calm, compose, tranquilize, lull, soothe; appease, Archaic. attemper …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• tone down — soften, moderate; weaken the burden …   English contemporary dictionary

• tone down — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To dim] Syn. darken, deepen, cloud; see shade 2 . 2. [To soften] Syn. subdue, moderate, temper; see soften 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. quiet down, moderate, temper, soften, mute, dampen. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) I …   English dictionary for students