Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To make soft or more soft. 2. (v. t.) To render less hard; -- said of matter. 3. (v. t.) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. 4. (v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault. 5. (v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage. 6. (v. t.) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality. 7. (v. t.) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture. 8. (v. t.) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury. 9. (v. t.) To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice. 10. (v. i.) To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.

Multi-Version Concordance Soften (1 Occurrence) Psalms 65:10 You drench its furrows. You level its ridges. You soften it with showers. You bless it with a crop. (WEB YLT NAS RSV NIV)