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1. (v.t.) mollify
to soften in feeling or temper; pacify; appease.
2. mollify
to mitigate; reduce:
to mollify one's demands.
Etymology: (1350–1400; ME < MF mollifier < LL mollificāre= L molli(s) soft +-ficāre -fy)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle
cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
"She managed to mollify the angry customer"
2. (verb) temper, season, mollify
make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
"she tempered her criticism"
3. (verb) mollify
make less rigid or softer
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) mollify
to soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground
2. (verb) mollify
to assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm
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Sense: to calm, soothe or lessen the anger of.
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 Afrikaans: vermurf |
 Arabic: يُهَدِّئ، يُسْكِن، يُطَيّ |
 Bulgarian: успокоявам |
 Brazilian: amolecer |
 Czech: uklidnit, zmírnit |
 German: besänftigen |
 Danish: formilde |
 Greek: κατευνάζω |
 Spanish: calmar, apaciguar |
 Estonian: rahustama |
 Farsi: ارام کردن |
 Finnish: tyynnyttää |
 French: apaiser |
 Hebrew: לְהַרגִיע |
 Hindi: शांत करना |
 Croatian: smekšati |
 Hungarian: csillapít |
 Indonesian: menenangkan |
 Icelandic: sefa, blíðka |
 Italian: placare |
 Japanese: なだめる |
 Korean: 달래다 |
 Lithuanian: (nu)raminti |
 Latvian: nomierināt; remdēt |
 Malay: memujuk |
 Dutch: kalmeren |
 Norwegian: roe ned, dempe |
 Polish: uśmierzać, uciszać |
 Persian: ارام کردن |
 Pashto: كرار كول |
 Portuguese: amolecer |
 Romanian: a linişti |
 Russian: успокаивать, смягчать |
 Slovak: utíšiť |
 Slovenian: miriti |
 Serbian: smekšati |
 Swedish: blidka, lugna |
 Thai: ทำให้สงบ |
 Turkish: sakinleştirmek |
 Taiwanese: 使平靜，安撫 |
 Ukrainian: пом'якшувати, заспокоюват |
 Urdu: تسکین دینا |
 Vietnamese: xoa dịu |
 Chinese: 使平静，安抚 |
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