make+tender

  • 81intenerate — transitive verb ( ated; ating) Etymology: 2in + Latin tener soft, tender more at tender Date: 1576 to make tender ; soften • inteneration noun …

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  • 82Tapioca — is a flavorless, colorless, odorless starch extracted from the root of the plant species Manihot esculenta . This species, native to South America, is now cultivated worldwide and has many names, including cassava, bitter cassava, manioc,… …

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  • 83soften — I. v. a. 1. Intenerate, melt, touch, make tender, make soft. 2. Assuage, appease, mitigate, balm, moderate, alleviate, soothe, mollify, quiet, calm, still, quell, allay, relieve, ease, abate, temper, qualify, attemper, dull, lessen, blunt, make… …

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  • 84sweeten — I. v. a. 1. Make sweet. 2. Soften, make mild, make tender, make kind, mollify. 3. Give zest to, give a relish to. 4. Soothe, relieve. 5. Freshen, disinfect, ventilate, fumigate, deodorize. II. v. n. Grow sweet, become sweet …

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  • 85sweeten — v 1. make sweet, dulcify; candy, sugar, sugar coat; mull. 2. soften, make mild, milden, mellow; make tender, make kind; mollify, pacify, appease, soothe, solace; alleviate, relieve, mitigate, palliate, allay, solace, assuage, ease, abate; temper …

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  • 86melt — I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from Old English meltan; akin to Old Norse melta to digest, Greek meldein to melt more at mollify Date: before 12th century intransitive verb 1. to become altered from a solid to a liquid state usually by heat 2 …

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  • 87entender — transitive verb Etymology: en (I) + tender (adjective) obsolete : to make tender in feeling …

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  • 88in|ten´er|a´tion — in|ten|er|ate «ihn TEHN uh rayt», transitive verb, at|ed, at|ing. to make tender; soften: »Thus she [nature] contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar (Emerson). ╂[< in 2 in + Latin …

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  • 89in|ten|er|ate — «ihn TEHN uh rayt», transitive verb, at|ed, at|ing. to make tender; soften: »Thus she [nature] contrives to intenerate the granite and felspar (Emerson). ╂[< in 2 in + Latin …

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  • 90mitigate — (v.) early 15c., relieve (pain), from L. mitigatus, pp. of mitigare soften, make tender, ripen, mellow, tame, figuratively, make mild or gentle, pacify, soothe, ultimately from mitis gentle, soft (from PIE *mei mild ) + root of agere do, make,… …

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