Soften

Definition

soften /'sɒfn; US 'sↄ:fn / v ၁။ ေပ်ာ့(ေစ)သည္။ ညံ့သက္(ေစ) သည္။ The butter will soften out of the fridge. ❍ The lampshade will soften the light. ❍ a lotion to soften the skin. ၂။ ညံ့သက္(ေစ)သည္။ ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္း(ေစ)သည္။ His face softened and he almost smiled. Age has softened his attitude. ၃။ ေလ်ာ့ပါးေစသည္။ ေဖာ့သည္။ ေလ်ာ့သည္။ soften the impact of a collision ❍ I tried to soften the blow by telling him that others had failed too. ❏ softener n [U,C] ေရေစးခြၽတ္ ဓာတုပစၥည္းႏွင့္အိုး။ ❏ soften sb up [ PHRV ]( infml ) စိတ္ဓာတ္က်ေစသည္ (သို႔) တြယ္သည္။ အေပ်ာ့ဆြဲ ဆြဲသည္။ soften up the enemy with heavy bombing ❍ Potential customers were softened up with free gifts before the sales presentation.

Examples

1. Simmer gently until the apple has softened.
2. If the mixture is too hard you will need to soften it.
3. When Jack spoke to the children his voice softened.
4. She seems to have softened her attitude to him.
5. The warm light softened her features.