soften

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There's no way to soften it up, it's just a stupid thing to do.

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make (images or sounds) soft or softer

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of soften gathered in one view.

verb

make (images or sounds) soft or softer

verb

lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"

verb

give in, as to influence or pressure

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for soften.

verb

make (images or sounds) soft or softer

verb

lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"

verb

give in, as to influence or pressure

verb

protect from impact; "cushion the blow"

verb

make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears"

verb

make soft or softer; "This liquid will soften your laundry"

verb

become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it"

Example sentences

There's no way to soften it up, it's just a stupid thing to do.

Don't try to soften the message with tired jokes and deflection.

They rushed people into this new platform quickly without doing much to soften the ground or ease users over.

But with Google acting as a threat, perhaps Facebook will be forced to soften up on some of its policies.

People tend to forget that these two guys are, like all of us, human and don't have some sort of fancy PR machine to soften the blowback.

So most of them soften up and start spouting "status-quo-plus-plus" as soon as a few people in the true upper class start tossing them small favors.

The correct approach is probably somewhere in the middle.> Do we really need to soften everything?It sounds like you're trying to create a strawman.

I'm betting there is some kind of legal instrument available to me, as a user, to soften the blow when this inevitably happens.

I mention that to soften the following: "a github with a few apps that Ive messed around" does not necessarily suggest to me that you're capable of shipping software projects.

The fiat system is one where the global economic systems evolved into it - not because bankers wanted to get rich, but because policymakers realized that by being able to print more currency on-demand, it would soften economic pullbacks.

LinkedIn slaps itself a little bit, writes a report, agrees to a settlement, maybe manages to soften some language or push its own interpretation of events, "we did this, this and this, but we never ever did any of that".The investigators never had enough resources to do an investigation on their own, they check that LinkedIn's report is roughly as stern as their own report would have been based on evidence and interpretations presented in LinkedIn's report and what investigators already knew, agree to a settlement.