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Synonyms & Antonyms of softening
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- heavy-handed,
- oppressive,
- pitiless,
- tyrannical
- (also tyrannic)
softening
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softening
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of softening (Entry 3 of 3)
- three weeks of being sick in bed had noticeably softened her
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- had tried to soften the blow of her rejection to his marriage proposal
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“Softening.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softening. Accessed 26 Oct. 2021.
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