softens
Meaning of softens
verb
- To make something soft or softer.
Soften the butter before beating in the sugar.
- To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
Before the invasion, we softened up the enemy with the artillery.
- To make less harsh
Having second thoughts, I softened my criticism.
- To become soft or softer
The butter softened as it warmed up.
Information about softens
- It is a verb.
- The singular form of softens is: soften.
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Hyphenation of softens
soft-ens
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- softens is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of softens
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