Crossword-Solution: SOFTEN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Soften | v. t. | To make soft or more soft. |
| Soften | v. t. | To render less hard; -- said of matter. |
| Soften | v. t. | To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. |
| Soften | v. t. | To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault. |
| Soften | v. t. | To compose; to mitigate; to assuage. |
| Soften | v. t. | To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality. |
| Soften | v. t. | To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture. |
| Soften | v. t. | To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury. |
| Soften | v. t. | To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice. |
| Soften | v. i. | To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SOFTEN | anagram | SEFTON, STEFON |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with SOFTEN (5)
Even yet, though my thoughts were ultimately much absorbed in the task, it wears, to my eye, a stern and sombre aspect: too much ungladdened by genial sunshine; too little relieved by the tender and familiar influences which soften almost every scene of nature and real life, and undoubtedly should soften every picture of them.
Such object hath the power to soften and tame Severest temper, smooth the rugged’st brow, Enerve, and with voluptuous hope dissolve, Draw out with credulous desire, and lead At will the manliest, resolutest breast, As the magnetic hardest iron draws.
Marguerite’s gaze rested for an instant on the brilliant, silvery waters; and as she gazed, her heart, which had been numb with pain for all these hours, seemed to soften and distend, and her eyes filled with hot tears: not three miles away, with white sails set, a graceful schooner lay in wait.
Rawlinson’s version reads as follows: Therefore, walk not away from the wisdom of Epiphanes, but turn and follow it; so shall it conduct thee to the temple’s peace, and soften for thee the sorrows of life and the pains of death.
Well, I tried the best I could to kinder soften it up somehow for myself by saying I was brung up wicked, and so I warn’t so much to blame; but something inside of me kept saying, “There was the Sunday-school, you could a gone to it; and if you’d a done it they’d a learnt you there that people that acts as I’d been acting about that nigger goes to everlasting fire.” It made me shiver.
Quotes with SOFTEN (3)
A woman should soften but not weaken a man.
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 74 times in crossword archives (1975–2025).