mollifying

Verb

mollify (third-person singular simple present mollifies, present participle mollifying, simple past and past participle mollified)

1. To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
   • mollify someone’s anger

   Synonyms:

   assuage, calm, comfort, mitigate, soothe

2. To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
   • He tried to mollify the angry customer.

   Synonyms:

   appease, conciliate, pacify, placate, propitiate, satisfy

3. To soften; to make tender.
   • Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire.1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   soften, soften up, tenderize, temper, deharden