Thesaurus: mollify

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1. v. t. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
2. v. t. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
3. v. cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
4. v. make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
5. v. make less rigid or softer
6. 1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser. 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.
7. v:100 v. make less rigid or softer