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Soak :: Soak (v. t.) To cause or suffer to lie in a fluid till the substance has imbibed what it can contain; to macerate in water or other liquid; to steep, as for the purpose of softening or freshening; as, to soak cloth; to soak bread; to soak salt meat, salt fish, or the like..

Sweeten :: Sweeten (a.) To make mild or kind; to soften; as, to sweeten the temper..

Muffler :: Muffler (n.) A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.

Gizzard :: Gizzard (n.) The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium..

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To make soft or more soft.

Steep :: Steep (v. t.) To soak in a liquid; to macerate; to extract the essence of by soaking; as, to soften seed by steeping it in water. Often used figuratively..

Relent :: Relent (v. t.) To soften; to dissolve.

Intenerate :: Intenerate (a.) To make tender or sensitive; to soften.

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault..

Mollify :: Mollify (v. t.) To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground..

Steamboat :: Steam (v. t.) To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing; as, to steam wood; to steamcloth; to steam food, etc..

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.

Softener :: Softener (n.) One who, or that which, softens..

Coddle :: Coddle (v. t.) To parboil, or soften by boiling..

Temper :: Temper (v. t.) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage; to soothe; to calm..

Emollition :: Emollition (n.) The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.

Lenitive :: Lenitive (a.) Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient..

Mitigate :: Mitigate (v. t.) To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief..

Lenify :: Lenify (v. t.) To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.

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