SOFTEN Copy link • SOFTENPROP., mollire, emollire: mitigare (transitively); emolliri: mollescere: emollescere: mitigari (intransitively). Figuratively, mollire, emollire, commovere animum alicujus; aliquem, alicujus animum, lenire, delenire, mitigare (transitively); molliri: leniri (intransitively). To soften down anything in the telling, ad aliquem in mollius referre aliquid (Tac., Ann., 14, 39).