Synonyms of the word

soften

• v. (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
• v. (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
• v. (transitive) To make less harsh.
• v. (intransitive) To become soft or softer.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

blunt

• adj. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
• adj. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
• adj. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
• adj. Hard to impress or penetrate.
• adj. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
• n. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
• n. A short needle with a strong point.
• n. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic, uncountable) money.
• n. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
• v. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
• v. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

buffer

• n. Someone or something that buffs.
• n. (chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid.
• n. (computing) A portion of memory set aside to store data, often before it is sent to an external device…
• n. (mechanical) Anything used to maintain slack or isolate different objects.
• n. (telecommunications) A routine or storage medium used to compensate for a difference in rate of flow of…
• n. (rail transport) A device on trains and carriages designed to cushion the impact between them.
• n. (rail transport) The metal barrier to help prevent trains from running off the end of the track.
• n. An isolating circuit, often an amplifier, used to minimize the influence of a driven circuit on the driving…
• n. (politics, international relations) A buffer zone (such as a demilitarized zone) or a buffer state.
• n. (colloquial) A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
• n. (figuratively) A gap that isolates or separates two things.
• v. To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
• v. (computing) To store data in memory temporarily.
• v. (chemistry) To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by additing an acid or a base.
• adj. comparative form of buff: more buff.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

cushion

• n. A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support; for sitting on, kneeling…
• n. Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
• n. (figuratively) a sufficient quantity of an intangible object (like points or minutes) to allow for some…
• n. (obsolete) A riotous dance, formerly common at weddings.
• v. To furnish with cushions.
• v. To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
• v. To absorb or deaden the impact of.
• v. To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

damp

• adj. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
• adj. (figuratively) despondent; dispirited, downcast.
• n. Moisture; humidity; dampness.
• n. (archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.
• n. (archaic) Dejection or depression.
• n. (archaic or historical, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain,…
• v. (transitive) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to…

dampen

• v. (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
• v. (transitive) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
• v. (intransitive) To become damp; to deaden.

deaden

• v. (transitive) To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
• v. (intransitive) To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).
• v. (transitive) To make soundproof.

mince

• n. (uncountable) Finely chopped meat.
• n. (uncountable) Finely chopped mixed fruit used in Christmas pies; mincemeat.
• n. (countable) An affected (often dainty or short and precise) gait.
• n. (countable) An affected manner, especially of speaking; an affectation.
• n. (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, chiefly plural) An eye (from mince pie).
• v. (transitive) To make less; make small.
• v. (transitive) To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.
• v. (transitive, rare) To effect mincingly.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.
• v. (transitive) To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead…
• v. (transitive) To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
• v. (intransitive) To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
• v. (intransitive) To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
• v. (archaic) To diminish the force of.

moderate

• adj. Not excessive; acting in moderation.
• adj. Mediocre.
• adj. Average priced; standard-deal.
• adj. Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
• adj. (US, politics) Having an intermediate position between liberal and conservative.
• n. One who holds an intermediate position between extremes, as in politics.
• v. (transitive) To reduce the excessiveness of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become less excessive.
• v. (transitive) To preside over (something) as a moderator.
• v. (intransitive) To act as a moderator; to assist in bringing to compromise.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

relent

• n. Stay; stop; delay.
• v. To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to soften in temper; to become…
• v. To slacken; to abate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To lessen, make less severe or fast.
• v. (dated) To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.

yield

• v. (obsolete) To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
• v. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
• v. To give way; to allow another to pass first.
• v. To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
• v. (intransitive) To give way; to succumb to a force.
• v. To produce as return, as from an investment.
• v. (mathematics) To produce as a result.
• v. (linguistics) To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
• v. (engineering, materials science, of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo…
• v. (rare) To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
• n. (obsolete) Payment; tribute.
• n. A product; the quantity of something produced.
• n. (law) The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond.