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mollifying 使軟化 使軟化 Mollify \ Mol" li* fy\, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Mollified}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Mollifying}.] [ F. mollifier, L. mollificare; mollis soft - ficare ( in comp.) to make. See { Enmollient}, { Moil}, v. t., and {- fy}.] 1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. [ 1913 Webster] With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm. [ 1913 Webster] 32 Moby Thesaurus words for " mollifying": appeasing, calming, conciliatory, cradling, demulcent, dreamy, drowsy, easing, emollient, gentling, hushing, irenic, loosening, lulling, pacific, pacificatory, pacifying, placative, placatory, propitiative, propitiatory, quietening, reconciliatory, relaxing, restful, rocking, softening, soothful, soothing, stilling, subduing, tranquilizing
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