These are the meanings of the letters ESTFON when you unscramble them.
- Soften (v. i.)
To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.
- Soften (v. t.)
To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
- Soften (v. t.)
To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.
- Soften (v. t.)
To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.
- Soften (v. t.)
To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.
- Soften (v. t.)
To make soft or more soft.
- Soften (v. t.)
To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.
- Soften (v. t.)
To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.
- Soften (v. t.)
To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.
- Soften (v. t.)
To render less hard; -- said of matter.