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Meaning of 'mollify' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Mollify [ v. t.]
- To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
- To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.

Meaning of 'mollify' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . mollify [ v]
Meaning (1):
- cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of
Example in sentence:
  • She managed to mollify the angry customer
Meaning (2):
- make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
Example in sentence:
  • she tempered her criticism

Nearby Words:

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