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Scumbling :: Scumbling (n.) A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing..

Meliorate :: Meliorate (v. t.) To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

Assuage :: Assuage (v. t.) To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire..

Hectograph :: Hectograph (n.) A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin..

Ramollescence :: Ramollescence (n.) A softening or mollifying.

Malaxate :: Malaxate (v. t.) To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance.

Mollification :: Mollification (n.) The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening..

Indigested :: Indigested (a.) Not softened by heat, hot water, or steam..

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

Subdue :: Subdue (v. t.) To reduce to tenderness; to melt; to soften; as, to subdue ferocity by tears..

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

Giving :: Giving (n.) The act of softening, breaking, or yielding..

Relent :: Relent (v. i.) To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, cruel, or the like; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion..

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality..

Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber..

Scumble :: Scumble (v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect..

Temperate :: Temperate (v. t.) To render temperate; to moderate; to soften; to temper.

Touch :: Touch (v. t.) To affect the senses or the sensibility of; to move; to melt; to soften.

Graining :: Graining (n.) A process in dressing leather, by which the skin is softened and the grain raised..

Intenerate :: Intenerate (a.) Made tender or soft; softened.

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