To make soft or more soft. Specifically: -- (a) To render less hard; -- said of matter. Their arrow's point they soften in the flame. Gay. (b) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler. (c) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault. (d) To compose; to mitigate; to assu...
