softening
noun B2- The process of making something soft.
- The process of becoming soft.
Plural softenings
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“I say, Watson,” he whispered, “would you be afraid to sleep in the same room with a lunatic, a man with softening of the brain, an idiot whose mind has lost its grip?”
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