1 to become more gentle or less strict, or to make someone do this:
2 to become gentle, or to make something less forceful or loud:
3 to make something weaker:
4 to become less hard or firm, or to make something less firm:
5 if demand, a price, a market, etc. softens, it stops increasing or it goes down:
Share prices softened with continued worries about the country's economic recovery.
Although demand softened again in November, it has strengthened in December.
When the economy began softening, the relatively newer factories in the suburbs began to feel pressure.
There are signs that household expenditure is already softening after the longest consumer boom on record.
soften against sth Sterling may have strengthened against the dollar but it's softened against the euro.
6 to become, or to make something seem, less severe or unpleasant:
Radially softening diffusive motions in a globular protein.
The mashed front fender and broken rear spring had softened everybody's concern for the automobile ' ' (153).
The micropylar endosperm of a seed was considered softened when it required a force of less than 1200 g to cause radicle protrusion.
Several considerations might be brought against this ' softening ' of the status of miracles.
The micropylar endosperm was considered softened when radicle protrusion was induced by applying a force of 1200 g or less.
He noticed for the first time that she had become a woman ; her body had lengthened and softened.
Cutting a scene in which a king is banished from the final celebrations of the opera softened the impact of a potentially subversive political message.
All of these constraints are softened when neutrals determine the mean free path since they do not influence the dust long-range interaction appreciably.
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