mollify
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- To calm the anger of; soothe or appease. synonym: pacify. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To lessen, as in intensity; assuage. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To reduce the rigidity of; soften. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition (view on wordnik.com)
- To soften; make soft or tender. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To soothe; mitigate; appease; pacify; calm or quiet. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To make less harsh; qualify; tone down; moderate; abate. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To induce or incline by making tender. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- Synonyms and To mitigate, ease, moderate. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To soothe, quiet. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To become soft or tender. …☝️ Source: The Century Dictionary (view on wordnik.com)
- To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
- To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm. transitive verb …☝️ Source: The GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English (view on wordnik.com)
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ease aburden ; make lesspainful ; tocomfort verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - To
appease ,pacify , gain thegood will of. verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - To
soften ; to maketender verb …☝️ Source: Wiktionary (view on wordnik.com) - make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
- make less rigid or softer verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
- cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of verb …☝️ Source: WordNet 3.0 (view on wordnik.com)
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Etymology
- late 14c., "to soften (a substance)," from Old French mollifier or directly from Late Latin mollificare "make soft, mollify" from mollificus "softening," from Latin mollis "soft" (see melt (v.)) + root of facere "to make" (see factitious). Transferred sense of "soften in temper, appease, pacify" is recorded from early 15c. Related: Mollified; mollifying.
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