soften
/ˈsɔfən/ 动词 C1中文： 软化、变软
- 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.
- To become or make (a consonant) more lenis, to lenite.
- To palatalize.
He/she/it softens · 过去式 softened · 过去分词 softened · -ing形式 softening
动词形式
- 原形
- soften
- He/she/it
- softens
- 过去式
- softened
- 过去分词
- softened
- -ing形式
- softening
短语动词和表达
来自图书馆
Marilla looked at Anne and softened at sight of the child’s pale face with its look of mute misery--the misery of a helpless little creature who finds itself once more caught in the trap from which it had escaped.
Her resentment, which to other and older people might be as laughable as its cause, was in no whit allayed and softened by time seemingly.
The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened the high window and fluttered in the vagrant breezes were of pale-green art muslin.
But if you will listen to his letter, you may, perhaps, be a little softened by his manner of expressing himself.”
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