Crossword-Solution: SOFTENING 9 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

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Softening p. pr. & vb. n. of Soften
Softening - a. & n. from Soften, v.

We have 6 clues for the answer “SOFTENING”

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moisturising 1 answer
moisturizing 1 answer
the process of becoming softer 1 answer
steeping 2 answers
Soaking 13 answers
cushioning 16 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SOFTENING (5)

Directly he had gone, Bathsheba burst into great sobs—dry-eyed sobs, which cut as they came, without any softening by tears.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Mother and daughter stood together in the same circle of seclusion from human society; and in the nature of the child seemed to be perpetuated those unquiet elements that had distracted Hester Prynne before Pearl’s birth, but had since begun to be soothed away by the softening influences of maternity.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
You see,” she lingered a moment, softening, “I wouldn’t mind if there were only _one_ of them I could really admire.” “How about Bowers?” Mrs.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
But the President of the United States wanted a secret favor from a journalist, so some softening, some schmoozing was in order.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

Quotes with SOFTENING (3)

Dear Child, Sometimes on your travel through hell, you meet people that think they are in heaven because of their cleverness and ability to get away with things. Travel past them because they don't understand who they have become and never will. These type of people feel justified in revenge and will never learn mercy or forgiveness because they live by comparison. They are the people that don't care about anyone, other than who is making them feel confident. They don’t under…
Shannon L. Alder
Anticipation lifts the heart. Desire is created to be fulfilled - perhaps not all at once, more likely in slow stages. Isaiah uttered his prophetic words about the renewal of the natural Creation into a wilderness of spiritual barrenness and thirst. For him, and for many other Old Testament seers, the vacuum of dry indifference into which he spoke was not yet a place of fulfillment. Yet the promise of God through this human mouthpiece (and the word "promise" always holds a ki…
Luci Shaw
When an animal dies, another of the same species may cling to the body, eat the body, or look bored. Bees expel dead bodies from the hive or, if that is impossible, embalm them in honey. Elephants "say" a ritualistic good-bye, and touch their dead before slowly walking away. Corvids often accept the death of a companion without much fuss, but they at times have “funerals,” where scores of birds lament over the corpse of a deceased crow. But it is a bit odd that people should …
Boria Sax The Raven and the Sun: Poems and Stories