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Verb: mollify  'mó-li,fI
  1. Cause to be more favourably inclined; gain the good will of
    "She managed to mollify the angry customer";
    - pacify, lenify [archaic], conciliate, assuage, appease, placate, gentle, gruntle
     
  2. Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else
    "she mollified her criticism";
    - temper, season, moderate
     
  3. Make less rigid or softer
    "The warm water mollified the frozen ground"

Derived forms: mollifying, mollifies, mollified

Type of: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten [Brit], soften, still, tranquilize [N. Amer], tranquillise [Brit], tranquillize, weaken