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Soften up

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  1. 1
    To make softer.
  2. 2
    To appease someone in order to make them more receptive to an idea or proposal. broadly, idiomatic
  3. 3
    To become less committed to something.

    "That was what Agnes thought at two o'clock in the afternoon, but by evening she had softened up some."

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