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softeningverbpresent participle of soften to diminish the physical strength ofthree weeks of being sick in bed had noticeably softened her debilitating, devitalizing, enervating, enfeebling, etiolating, prostrating, sapping, tiring, wasting, weakening crippling, disabling, hamstringing, incapacitatingdepleting, depressing, exhausting, impoverishing, unmanning, washing outdamaging, harming, hurting, impairing, injuring, invaliding, laying upbreaking down, grinding (down), wearing down, wearing outparalyzing beefing (up), fortifying, strengthening energizing, invigorating, recruiting, rejuvenating, vitalizinghardening, seasoning, toughening to lessen the shock ofhad tried to soften the blow of her rejection to his marriage proposal buffering, cushioning, gentling baffling, dampening, deadening, dulling, obtundingmoderating, modulating, temperingallaying, alleviating, assuaging, easinglightening, mitigating, relieving heightening, intensifying, sharpening |