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softens up
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To flatter or appease someone with sly tactics
To appease or assuage (someone)
To adulterate or dilute the concentration or potency of
To seek favor from by fawning, or with servile behavior
To control or influence (a person or course of action)
To minimize or moderate the seriousness of (an offense)
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Verb
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To flatter or appease someone with sly tactics
cajoles
wheedles
flatters
charms
appeases
sweet-talks
butters up
persuades
coaxes
inveigles
influences
soft-soaps
sways
works on
blarneys
talks
beguiles
convinces
blandishes
palavers
coerces
argues
sweetens up
wins over
smooth-talks
entices
lures
brings round
talks into
soaps
finagles
solicits
woos
tempts
induces
seduces
urges
gets
worms
courts
draws
gets round
cons
prods
prevails on
reasons
oils
snows
makes
manipulates
leans on
pressures
puts pressure on
puts the squeeze on
twists someone's arm
massages
sweet talks
works over
overdoes it
lays it on thick
honeys
strokes
plays up to
adulates
praises
fawns
brownnoses
bootlicks
sucks up to
brown-noses
falls all over
compliments
glorifies
overpraises
grovels
compliments excessively
fawns on
pays court to
fawns over
builds up
spreads it on
curry favors with
US
hero-worships
ingratiates oneself with
curry favours with
UK
dances attendance on
toadies
curries favour
UK
panders to
creeps to
curry favors
US
makes up to
flannels
kowtows
truckles
panegyrizes
expresses admiration for
waxes lyrical about
rubs up the right way
sucks up
crawls to
toadies to
puffs
belauds
humours
UK
humors
US
crawls
softens
commends
lauds
pays blandishments to
kowtows to
says nice things about
truckles to
licks someone's boots
keeps someone sweet
rubs the right way
ingratiates yourself
reveres
elevates
gushes over
worships
cowers
kisses one's feet
puts on a pedestal
creeps
cringes
abases oneself to
bows and scrape to
demeans oneself to
apple-polishes
adores
venerates
lionizes
US
raves over
admires
lionises
UK
beslavers
bows
cultivates
fusses
panders
lays it on with a trowel
prostrates oneself to
prostrates oneself
makes much of
bows and scrapes
grovels to
pays tribute to
kissed up to
smoodges to
tries to get on the good side of
fawns upon
seeks the favour of
tries to win over
ingratiates
cozies up
gets in with
eats humble pie
prostrates oneself before
eats crow
humiliates yourself
humbles oneself
kisses someone's feet
submits to
defers to
back-scratches
uses flattery
talks blarney
defers
submits
yields
fangirls
fanboys
falls on one's knees
smarms around
abases oneself before
caters to
kneels before
sings the praises of
buddies up
falls over oneself for
caves in to
praises to excess
bows and scrape before
praises to the skies
honeys up
lays it on
grovels before
cringes before
pays court
bends
kneels
stoops
quails
crouches
eats dirt
gets on the right side of
puffs up
butters up to
soothes
exalts
strokes one's ego
rooses
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“I tried to
soften up
my boss by complimenting her outfits every day, hoping to get a promotion.”
Verb
▲
To appease or assuage (someone)
sweetens
soothes
assuages
mollifies
appeases
placates
pacifies
propitiates
conciliates
softens
mellows
wins over
sugars the pill
Verb
▲
To adulterate or dilute the concentration or potency of
weakens
dilutes
adulterates
thins
cuts
laces
extends
debases
sophisticates
waters down
thins out
takes the edge off
Verb
▲
To seek favor from by fawning, or with servile behavior
panders
brownnoses
flatters
bootlicks
snows
soaps
toadies
strokes
plays up to
falls all over
curries favour
UK
curry favors
US
sucks up to
apple-polishes
fawns on
gets on the right side of
lays it on
plays the game
scratchs one's back
Verb
▲
To control or influence (a person or course of action)
sways
influences
affects
persuades
biases
biasses
prejudices
turns
colors
US
colours
UK
controls
guides
impacts
impresses
manipulates
moves
reaches
sells
strikes
touches
converts
convinces
inclines
induces
inspires
jaundices
motivates
molds
US
moulds
UK
prompts
slants
bends
brainwashes
carries
conducts
cracks
hooks
nobbles
predisposes
brings round
prevails on
talks round
tells on
turns one's head
twists one's arm
wins over
impacts on
leads by the nose
puts across
works on
sucks in
Verb
▲
To minimize or moderate the seriousness of (an offense)
palliates
downplays
minimises
UK
minimizes
US
whitewashes
mitigates
extenuates
rationalises
UK
rationalizes
US
lessens
sugarcoats
qualifies
prettifies
plays down
de-emphasizes
makes light of
tones down
soft-pedals
brushes something under the carpet
glosses over
covers up
explains away
understates
candy-coats
justifies
shrugs off
belies
glosses
varnishes
glozes over
smooths over
brushes aside
underplays
moderates
underemphasizes
euphemizes
subdues
shushes
sets little store by
sets no store by
puts on the soft pedal
minces words
blue-pencils
makes nothing of
goes easy
makes little of
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