softened  /s'ɔfənd/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  softened
  軟化

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Soften \Sof"ten\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Softened}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Softening}.]
     To make soft or more soft. Specifically:
     (a) To render less hard; -- said of matter.
  
               Their arrow's point they soften in the flame.
                                                    --Gay.
     (b) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.
  
               Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the
               severe.                              --Rambler.
     (c) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften
         a fault.
     (d) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
  
               Music can soften pain to ease.       --Pope.
     (e) To make calm and placid.
  
               All that cheers or softens life.     --Pope.
     (f) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less
         violent, or to render of an opposite quality.
  
               He bore his great commision in his look, But
               tempered awe, and softened all he spoke. --Dryden.
     (g) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the
         coloring of a picture.
     (h) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as,
         troops softened by luxury.

資料來源(3): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  softened
       adj 1: toned down
       2: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom
          of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled
          noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: {dull}, {muffled},
           {muted}]
       3: (of light) not bright or glaring; "a softer diffused
          radiance" [syn: {diffused}]