Usually means: Makes less hard or severe.
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  1. softens: Merriam-Webster
  2. softens: Collins English Dictionary
  3. softens: Vocabulary.com
  4. Softens, softens: Wordnik
  5. softens: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. softens: Wiktionary
  7. softens: Dictionary.com
  8. softens: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. softens: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. softens: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. softens: Idioms

(Note: See soften as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (soften)

verb:  (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
verb:  (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
verb:  (transitive) To make less harsh
verb:  (intransitive) To become soft or softer
verb:  (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more lenis, to lenite.
verb:  (Slavic phonology) To palatalize.
▸ Also see soften


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