Softens is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOFTENS in dictionary:

VERB:
• SOFTEN, to make soft
• 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).

Words related to SOFTENS

soften9 softened12 softening13

Words that contain SOFTENS

resoftens12

How to use SOFTENS in a sentence

• Here the linten is put into a hot bath of air forced through heated water, and thus charged with moisture, which softens the filaments and diminishes the cohesion of the fibres.
• This barren wilderness again softens into gracefully-swelling hills turned towards Florence.
• The quiver of Cupid, suspended to a tree, gives sportive grace to the scene which softens the tragedy of a breaking tie.
• Like oil that is poured upon the roots of trees, which softens, it destroys and withers all the branches.
• People generally think that good music softens manners, and does not permit those who play and practice it to be vulgar.
• This softens the shells, and as a little turkey is very weak, it is helped out easily, and is stronger than if working long to get out.
• The hot water softens the gum, and allows the floss to become partially detached.
• Their manner softens, their words become more gentle, their conduct more unselfish.
• Sickness in a home of faith, prayer, and love, softens all the household hearts, makes sympathy deeper, draws all the family closer together.
• In Shelley, I would say that love was a sort of afterglow upon the landscape, and softens his rigid anarchy into something like beauty.
• Son of Man, Soul of the World, enters into darkness and softens its savage nature, 566-m.
• The bone-dust causes the heap of manure to ferment more readily, and the fermentation of the manure softens the bones.
• The scenery softens down to an agricultural aspect, the country declining northerly toward the sea.
• The part of the tube above this point will gradually bend over of its own weight as the glass softens.
• As the cement softens, manipulate the point of a pocket knife under the edges of the letter until the caustic works completely under and makes it easy to lift the letters.
• It is a great-coat that softens to us the heat of the day, and the cold of the night.
• The real business of these harmonies is for incidental pranks, with an after-touch that confesses the jest, or softens it to a lyric utterance.
• Passion strengthens the voice in proportion as it rises, and sentiment, on the contrary, softens it in due ratio to its intensity.
• This prevents some grapes from retaining undue moisture, and it also softens the stems and makes them pliable.
• It softens in boiling water, and may be moulded or pressed.

Similar words containing SOFTEN without suffix s

soften9 resoften11 softened12 softener11 resoftens12 softeners12 softening13 resoftened14 softenings14 unsoftened14 resoftening15 unsoftening15

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