soften

soften is a 6-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make soft or more soft. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To make soft or more soft.
2. transitive verb. To render less hard; -- said of matter.
3. transitive verb. To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.
4. transitive verb. To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.
5. transitive verb. To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
6. transitive verb. To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.
7. transitive verb. To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.
8. transitive verb. To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.
9. transitive verb. To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.
10. intransitive verb. To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.
11. verb. become soft or softer

    "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it"

12. verb. make soft or softer

    "This liquid will soften your laundry"

13. verb. lessen in force or effect

    "soften a shock"

    "break a fall"

    Synonyms: break, damp, dampen, weaken

14. verb. make less severe or harsh

    "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears"

    Synonyms: mince, moderate

15. verb. protect from impact

    "cushion the blow"

    Synonyms: buffer, cushion

16. verb. make (images or sounds) soft or softer
17. verb. give in, as to influence or pressure

    Synonyms: relent, yield

Synonyms

break, damp, dampen, weaken, mince, moderate, buffer, cushion, relent, yield

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in soften:

feston, fontes, oftens, sefton

Common word forms

softens, softened, softener, softening

Words from these letters

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