(a.) Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.
(n.) An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emollients can increase the water content in the stratum corneum by delivery of their water to the skin, and by occlusion.
(2) As opposition to her and her measures became more intense, she responded not with emollience but with increased ferocity.
(3) In conclusion, regular use of emollients prevented irritant dermatitis from a detergent.
(4) p1 percent) with desoximetasone emollient cream (0.25 percent) showed the new topical steroid to be clinically superior in the relief of moderate and severe inflammatory manifestations of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis.
(5) While it’s too early to suppose that President Trump’s attitude won’t change, given his unpredictability, the more emollient tone does appear to be pacifying markets for now.” Analysts also pointed to another reason for the strength in US markets.
(6) One wing of the party wants Ed Miliband to take the fight to Ukip; the other calls for a more emollient approach so as not to insult or upset former Labour supporters who have been seduced by the Faragian view of things.
(7) But, if the prime minister believed Morgan would simply be a more emollient version of her predecessor – or as one of her close allies put it, “if they thought she would just be a Stepford minister” – he had misunderstood the 41-year-old MP for Loughborough.
(8) But everyone knows that Bercow, a much more abrasive Commons chair than either Hoyle or his equally emollient Tory colleague, Nigel Evans, is not popular among Tory MPs.
(9) Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, who has previously compared the Republican presidential nominee to Hitler and Mussolini , tried to strike a more emollient tone, tweeting : “I believe in dialogue to promote the interests of Mexico in the world and to protect Mexicans wherever they are.” Many of his countrymen, especially among the intellectual elite, were rather blunter as they anticipated the arrival of a man who has accused Mexico of “bringing their worst people” to America, including criminals and rapists.
(10) As the campaign has progressed, and his chances of victory have increased, some figures on the party’s centre-right, such as Chuka Umunna, who had initially sounded alarms about the leftwing insurgent, began to make more emollient noises.
(11) Then standard amounts of the emollients were applicated to the induced skin reactions, twice daily for a period of 5 days.
(12) Nor does Xi's confidence in overseas dealings necessarily indicate a more emollient approach to foreign relations.
(13) Supportive therapy involves maintaining the affected extremities at warm temperatures and the use of emollient creams.
(14) His emollient language, in answer to a question from the former Labour sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe, contrasted with last week's prime minister's questions when he described the £162m programme as a "complete failure".
(15) The message was a reprise of the commitment to engagement approach he signalled in his inaugural address and was made in an emollient tone that contrasted sharply with that used by George Bush, who included the Islamic Republic in his "axis of evil".
(16) Very superficial burns require only application of an emollient to limit inflammation and pain and prevent desiccation.
(17) Emollient and realistic, because, without question, Tsipras is in an uncomfortable position.
(18) In this study, the influence of 4 after-work emollients on the healing of irritant skin reactions of varying intensity was assessed.
(19) Findings from these multicenter studies confirm the value of the skin replica technique and help establish the efficacy of tretinoin emollient 0.05% cream for photodamaged skin.
(20) Brian Cathcart, the executive director of the campaign group, later issued a more emollient statement: "The direct involvement of ministers in these secret negotiations means no one can be confident that the public's interests are being served rather than the interests of the editors and proprietors, or of the politicians."
Soften
Definition:
(v. t.) To make soft or more soft.
(v. t.) To render less hard; -- said of matter.
(v. t.) To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable.
(v. t.) To palliate; to represent as less enormous; as, to soften a fault.
(v. t.) To compose; to mitigate; to assuage.
(v. t.) To make less harsh, less rude, less offensive, or less violent, or to render of an opposite quality.
(v. t.) To make less glaring; to tone down; as, to soften the coloring of a picture.
(v. t.) To make tender; to make effeminate; to enervate; as, troops softened by luxury.
(v. t.) To make less harsh or grating, or of a quality the opposite; as, to soften the voice.
(v. i.) To become soft or softened, or less rude, harsh, severe, or obdurate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other trend involved softening from penetrant liquid absorption and a concomitant decrease in hardness.
(2) Golding said the government would not soften its stance on drug trafficking and it intended to use a proportion of revenues from its licensing authority to support a public education campaign to discourage pot-smoking by young people and mitigate public health consequences.
(3) Pathologically, there was diffuse incomplete softening of white matter in all cases.
(4) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(5) Add the onion, cook for three minutes, stirring, until softened, then add the wine, sage, lemon peel, lemon juice and 150ml water.
(6) Welfare cuts are now becoming a matter of life or death | Letters Read more But government sources suggested the political pressures on Osborne, who has been criticised publicly by a series of Tory MPs, suggest he will act more flexibly and direct substantial resources to softening the impact of the cuts.
(7) Moisture on the skin was shown to increase the discharge to a standard stimulus, probably by its softening effect on the stratum corneum.
(8) The importance of R for cervical softening during pregnancy and its interaction with E near term and during parturition are discussed.
(9) He and Cameron have spent the week softening up opinion for huge benefit cuts in next week’s budget , due to focus on tax credits, largely paid to in-work, ”hardworking” families, victims of Britain’s swelling ranks of the under-paid.
(10) The method of aspiration with a standard electric operative aspirator should be used for evacuation of the softened brain matter.
(11) But he also suggested the administration was softening its commitment to the Minsk framework for a deal.
(12) In a casserole over a medium heat, fry the onions in the oil and butter for 5 minutes, to soften.
(13) Its lines soften, its edges fade; it shrinks into the raw cold from the river, more like a shrouded mountain than a castle built for kings.
(14) The wizened fish is hammered with a mallet to soften it so you can pull it off in strips to eat.
(15) The substitution of the softeners with deionisers solved this important and unusual clinical problem.
(16) Softening and elution are not sufficient for constriction, however, since high potassium, 2,4-dinitrophenol, and cyanide inhibited constriction without inhibiting the softening or elution of axoplasm.
(17) Ribotyping patterns of aeromonads recovered from well 1, detention basin, sand filter, softener, and distribution samples were compared with those of the five clinical isolates.
(18) By softening these insects in a detergent solution, however, it is possible to make most observations in the same way as on fresh material.
(19) His and Osborne's post-election "softening up" is returning to haunt them.
(20) But recently, their attitude has softened as they realise the importance of music to the island.