MENTAL BLOCK - WORD HELP!!!!

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I need a word that means "to make more gentle". It is burried deep in my cerebelum but won't come out. Thus far I have neologised "gentlification" but frankly that's fucking rubbish.

Help me ILX, you're my only hope.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

mollify?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

'dial down'?

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:27 (twenty years ago)

In America, you need word. In Soviet Russia, word needs YOU!

― Yakov Smirnoff, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

Placate? Mollify? Soothe? Dope?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

yeah, "mollify" is a good one.

― Penis, NV (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:29 (twenty years ago)

Dulcify?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:32 (twenty years ago)

pussify

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:33 (twenty years ago)

tenderise.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Tame?

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:35 (twenty years ago)

depends what's being made more gentle, dunnit.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

Context? Are you hiring a bulldozer to make a slope more gentle? Or are we talking pets? Or something else?

xpost

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

'gentlification' sounds like a brilliant word. Use that!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:42 (twenty years ago)

"to make more gentle" sounds okay to me.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:43 (twenty years ago)

if writing about indie music the phrase is 'to water down' or 'to dilute'.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

"mellowing"? It is for a blurb about Patrick Wolf.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:49 (twenty years ago)

Soothe? Tenderize (but that's for meats/objects, no?)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

Lobotomise

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

chillin'

― Come Back Johnny B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 11:37 (twenty years ago)

1 vote for mellow. grow mellow, mellow out.

Only if positive, though. (kinder gentler sweeter softer with age etc)
If he now makes MOR ballads & AOR muzak: sell out.

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 11:38 (twenty years ago)

The Patrick Wolf album's not exactly mellow though. I find it pretty harrowing - are you saying it's gentler than the last one? I might go with "temper" - as in to make softer by the addition of something else, which I think's a good way of putting it, though you're probably still using it in a different way but anyway...

― edward o (edwardo), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 11:43 (twenty years ago)

flabify

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

'calm'

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

Habituate? Tame? Domesticate? Ameliorate? Assuage?

― Jaq (Jaq), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

1. DE-SAVAGE

2. ANTI-ALIAS

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

pluffrle

― Mike Hanle y (mike), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)

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