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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..

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

Moisten :: Moisten (v. t.) To soften by making moist; to make tender.

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

Gastromalacia :: Gastromalacia (n.) A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change.

Humanize :: Humanize (v. t.) To render human or humane; to soften; to make gentle by overcoming cruel dispositions and rude habits; to refine or civilize.

Soften :: Soften (v. t.) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury..

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

Thaw :: Thaw (v. t.) To cause (frozen things, as earth, snow, ice) to melt, soften, or dissolve..

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..

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

Emollient :: Emollient (a.) Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.

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..

Attemper :: Attemper (v. t.) To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice with clemency..

Litotes :: Litotes (n.) A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, a citizen of no mean city, that is, of an illustrious city..

Mollient :: Mollient (a.) Serving to soften; assuaging; emollient.

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

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

Stuffy :: Stuffing (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

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

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