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What is another word for
softening up
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Present participle for to flatter or appease someone with sly tactics
Present participle for to appease or assuage (someone)
Present participle for to adulterate or dilute the concentration or potency of
Present participle for to seek favor from by fawning, or with servile behavior
Present participle for to control or influence (a person or course of action)
Present participle for to minimize or moderate the seriousness of (an offense)
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Verb
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Present participle for to flatter or appease someone with sly tactics
cajoling
wheedling
flattering
charming
appeasing
sweet-talking
buttering up
persuading
coaxing
inveigling
influencing
soft-soaping
swaying
working on
blarneying
talking
beguiling
convincing
blandishing
palavering
arguing
coercing
sweetening up
winning over
smooth-talking
enticing
luring
bringing round
finagling
soaping
talking into
wooing
soliciting
tempting
inducing
seducing
urging
getting
conning
worming
reasoning
snowing
drawing
prevailing on
making
oiling
prodding
getting round
courting
pressuring
putting pressure on
putting the squeeze on
twisting someone's arm
leaning on
manipulating
honeying
stroking
massaging
sweet talking
overdoing it
working over
playing up to
laying it on thick
adulating
praising
fawning
brownnosing
bootlicking
sucking up to
brown-nosing
falling all over
complimenting
glorifying
overpraising
groveling
US
grovelling
UK
complimenting excessively
fawning on
paying court to
fawning over
building up
spreading it on
curry favoring with
hero-worshipping
ingratiating oneself with
dancing attendance on
curry favouring with
toadying
currying favour
making up to
creeping to
pandering to
curry favoring
flannelling
flanneling
kowtowing
truckling
panegyrizing
expressing admiration for
toadying to
waxing lyrical about
crawling to
sucking up
rubbing up the right way
puffing
belauding
humouring
UK
humoring
US
crawling
softening
commending
lauding
kowtowing to
rubbing the right way
paying blandishments to
ingratiating yourself
licking someone's boots
keeping someone sweet
saying nice things about
truckling to
revering
elevating
worshipping
UK
worshiping
US
gushing over
cowering
putting on a pedestal
kissing one's feet
creeping
cringing
abasing oneself to
apple-polishing
demeaning oneself to
bowing and scrape to
adoring
venerating
lionizing
US
raving over
admiring
lionising
UK
beslavering
bowing
cultivating
fussing
pandering
fawning upon
prostrating oneself
kisses up to
laying it on with a trowel
seeking the favour of
trying to get on the good side of
making much of
paying tribute to
smoodging to
bowing and scraping
prostrating oneself to
grovelling to
trying to win over
ingratiating
cozying up
getting in with
eating crow
humbling oneself
eating humble pie
humiliating yourself
prostrating oneself before
abasing yourself
kissing someone's feet
submitting to
deferring to
back-scratching
talking blarney
using flattery
submitting
yielding
deferring
fangirling
fanboying
smarming around
bowing and scrape before
catering to
cringing before
laying it on
abasing oneself before
singing the praises of
falling over oneself for
praising to the skies
praising to excess
honeying up
grovelling before
buddying up
falling on one's knees
kneeling before
paying court
caving in to
kneeling
bending
quailing
stooping
crouching
eating dirt
getting on the right side of
puffing up
buttering up to
roosing
stroking one's ego
exalting
soothing
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“I tried to
soften up
my boss by complimenting her outfits every day, hoping to get a promotion.”
Verb
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Present participle for to appease or assuage (someone)
sweetening
soothing
assuaging
mollifying
appeasing
placating
pacifying
propitiating
conciliating
softening
mellowing
winning over
sugaring the pill
Verb
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Present participle for to adulterate or dilute the concentration or potency of
weakening
diluting
adulterating
thinning
cutting
lacing
extending
debasing
sophisticating
watering down
thinning out
taking the edge off
Verb
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Present participle for to seek favor from by fawning, or with servile behavior
pandering
brownnosing
flattering
bootlicking
snowing
soaping
toadying
stroking
playing up to
falling all over
currying favour
curry favoring
sucking up to
apple-polishing
fawning on
getting on the right side of
laying it on
playing the game
scratching one's back
Verb
▲
Present participle for to control or influence (a person or course of action)
swaying
influencing
affecting
persuading
biasing
US
biassing
UK
prejudicing
turning
coloring
US
colouring
UK
controlling
guiding
impacting
impressing
manipulating
moving
reaching
selling
striking
touching
converting
convincing
inclining
inducing
inspiring
jaundicing
motivating
molding
US
moulding
UK
prompting
slanting
bending
brainwashing
carrying
conducting
cracking
hooking
nobbling
predisposing
bringing round
prevailing on
talking round
telling on
turning one's head
twisting one's arm
winning over
impacting on
leading by the nose
putting across
working on
sucking in
Verb
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Present participle for to minimize or moderate the seriousness of (an offense)
palliating
downplaying
minimising
UK
minimizing
US
whitewashing
mitigating
extenuating
rationalising
UK
rationalizing
US
lessening
sugarcoating
qualifying
prettifying
playing down
de-emphasizing
making light of
toning down
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
covering up
brushing something under the carpet
glossing over
explaining away
understating
candy-coating
justifying
shrugging off
belying
varnishing
glossing
glozing over
brushing aside
smoothing over
underplaying
moderating
underemphasizing
euphemizing
subduing
shushing
setting no store by
setting little store by
making nothing of
mincing words
making little of
putting on the soft pedal
going easy
blue-penciling
blue-pencilling
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