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Webster 1828 Edition


Softened

SOFT'ENED

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Made less hard or less harsh; made less obdurate or cruel, or less glaring.

Definition 2024


softened

softened

English

Adjective

softened (comparative more softened, superlative most softened)

  1. Made soft.
  2. (linguistics): aspirated.

Verb

softened

  1. simple past tense and past participle of soften