0 past simple and past participle of soften --
2 to become more gentle or less strict, or to make someone do this: --
Apparently, for the micropylar endosperm to be sufficiently softened, an extensive degradation of the wall mannans was required.
The warm, sophisticated harmonic palette, dark textures and softened use of percussion go against this blueprint.
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.
The fire treatment softened the core and insured that the wood would not crack later.
For dissection, experimental weevils were embedded ventral surface down in softened black wax in a shallow dish, and then covered with water.
They 'feed' each other and the character conflicts become softened or non-existent.
The inside looks inward and windows open into an interior world of multilayered, softened and blurred vistas.
The micropylar endosperm was considered softened when radicle protrusion was induced by applying a force of 1200 g or less.
