mollify

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
    — mollify someone’s anger
  2. To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
    — He tried to mollify the angry customer.
  3. To soften; to make tender.
    — Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire.

词形变化

mollifies present,singular,third-person mollifying participle,present mollified participle,past mollified past mollifie alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
mollifiable mollifiedly mollifier mollifyingly unmollified unmollifying
相关词
emollient mollification

词源

From Middle English mollifien, from Late Latin mollificō, from Latin mollis (“soft”). By surface analysis, Latin moll- + -ify.
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