Word Meaning

Meaning of softens

- To make soft or more soft.
- To render less hard; -- said of matter.
- To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.
- To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.
- To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
- To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.
- To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.
- To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.
- To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.
- To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.

Crossword clue for softens

- Become gentler
- Make more malleable
- Mollify
- Relax little feet in one's treatment
- Temper
- Warm (towards)
- Emolliates
- Makes more malleable