Softening is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOFTENING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make or become soft or softer
• (of a market, currency, or commodity) fall in value
• make or become less severe
• undermine the resistance of (someone)
• remove mineral salts from (water).
NOUN:
• the act of making soft
• the process of becoming softer
ADJECTIVE:
• having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make soft
• a. & n. from Soften, v.

Words related to SOFTENING

inteneration12 soften9 softened12 softenings14 softens10

Words that contain SOFTENING

softenings14 resoftening15 unsoftening15

How to use SOFTENING in a sentence

• The evil lines of it were softening and fading under her clear gaze.
• Prayed with every family but one, and in each case felt the softening power.
• Tredgold at first said he would have nothing more to do with it, but under the softening influence of a pipe and a glass was induced to reconsider his decision.
• What is usually first seen is a peculiar softening and raising of the horn of the frog.
• After months of softening hearts and buying consciences, he was on the point of escape, when he was moved to another asylum.
• She felt that there was little hope of softening the obstinate and insensible brute in whose power she was placed.
• At the same time there was a general softening of manners.
• Under the influence of softening generations, the Caselys and Ellingtons had dropped their predatory tendencies, and lived peaceful lives.
• Her eyes, triumphant, surveyed the long room, with its satin-paneled walls, its French furniture, its long narrow gilt-framed mirrors softening the angles of the four corners.
• A midday sun was softening the asphalt with its fierce blaze.
• While engaged, however, in writing this story, he heard from England that Lady Byron was ill, and, his heart softening at the intelligence, he threw the manuscript into the fire.
• It is very penetrating, and has great softening and cooling properties.
• The monument, which had a moment before pointed to the zenith, now lay shattered in three pieces upon the softening concrete of the drive.
• The well-known effect of the open air, in softening and blending the sounds of music, was here peculiarly felt.
• Her charms, however, failed in softening the colder heart of Octavian.
• These Russian heads of the Saviour in softening down the severe and aged type common to Byzantium, assume a physiognomy not sufficiently intellectual for the Greatest of Teachers.
• There was a slight softening in her eyes as they surveyed the handsome, elaborately dressed gray head and the careful toilet of her unlovely mother.
• Art, so it seemed to Claude, often hardened instead of softening the nature of man.
• Nevertheless, there was that evening in her heart a little softening towards him.
• Prepare the sauce for the toast at the same time or before softening the slices, and pour into a pitcher for serving.
• In a few weeks, however, he had the mortification of seeing his elegant white book-covers fermenting and softening.
• New Orleans looked better under the softening hue of the twilight.
• The gentleness of His quiet question would couple softening of heart with conviction of her sin.
• Gentilla Stanley saw the look on the hard face and the softening of the hard eyes as the cheeks grew rosy red.

Similar words containing SOFTEN without suffix ing

soften9 softens10 resoften11 softened12 softener11 resoftens12 softeners12 resoftened14 softenings14 unsoftened14 resoftening15 unsoftening15

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