Usually means: Reducing the severity of something.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word mollifying:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. mollifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. mollifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mollifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mollifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. mollifying: Wordnik
  6. mollifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. mollifying: Wiktionary
  8. Mollifying, mollifying: Dictionary.com
  9. mollifying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Mollifying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Mollifying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. mollifying: FreeDictionary.org
  13. mollifying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mollifying: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mollify)

verb:  To ease a burden, particularly to ease a worry; make less painful; to comfort.
verb:  To appease anger, pacify, gain the good will of.
verb:  To soften; to make tender.
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