SOFTEN

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Traducere în limba română

soften verb A. tranzitiv

1. a muta; a atenua, a uşura; a netezi; a îmblânzi, a înduioşa; a domoli, a potoli; a slăbi, a reduce în intensitate;

to soften a drawing a estompa un desen;

to soften one’s tone and manners a-şi domoli tonul şi purtarea.

2. (mil.) a slăbi, a micşora (rezistenţa inamicului).

soften verb B. intranzitiv

a se (în)muia; a se uşura; a se îmblânzi; a se înduioşa, a se domoli, a se potoli; (despre sunet) a slăbi, a descreşte;

to soften at the sight of a se îmblânzi la vederea (unei persoane sau a unui lucru).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Did you speak? stepping eagerly to Fanny, and addressing her in a softened voice; and upon her saying No, he added, Are you sure you did not speak? I saw your lips move.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

His softened voice announced that he was subdued; so I, in my turn, became calm.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“To wish her dead,” said I, “may be the kindest wish that one of her own sex could bestow upon her. I am glad that time has softened you so much, Miss Dartle.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It cannot be for me—it cannot be for my sake that his manners are thus softened.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Marianne was softened in a moment.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Here was a great deal to soften the business.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Through our work we can see that heat travels along the structure-supporting thick cell wall fibres in bamboo, so if exposed to the heat of a fire the bamboo might soften more quickly in the direction of those fibres.

(Visualising heat flow in bamboo could help design more energy-efficient and fire-safe buildings, University of Cambridge)

You will soften him, Watson.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I assured him sadly that it was so, and went on to suggest—for I felt that such a horrible doubt should not have life for a moment longer than I could help—that it often happened that after death faces became softened and even resolved into their youthful beauty; that this was especially so when death had been preceded by any acute or prolonged suffering.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I spoke; circumstances were in my favour; the late event had softened away his pride, and he was, earlier than I could have anticipated, wholly reconciled and complying; and could say at last, poor man! with a deep sigh, that he wished I might find as much happiness in the marriage state as he had done.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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