TubeTalkTubeTalk Pronunciation
How to pronounce “softening”
Hear “softening” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for softening
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of softening with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- A Comedian’s Take on How to Save Democracy
I think the phrase “I don’t know” invites a softening,
- Definition summary
- present participle and gerund of soften
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce softening
A Comedian’s Take on How to Save Democracy
I think the phrase “I don’t know” invites a softening,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “softening”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of soften
- [Noun]
- The process of making something soft.
- The process of becoming soft.
Practice Nearby Words
soft, demulcent, emollient, salving, softness, relaxing, relieving, easing, alleviation, allaying, relaxation, mitigation, relief, ease, mitigating, laxity, let-up, lessening, slowdown, slowing, decrease, attenuation, reduction, weakening, downturn, deflection, decline, loosening, flexibility, dilution, facilitation, smoothing, bending, commutation, drop, sweetening, alleviating, liberalising, mollescent, tenderizing, cushioning, mellowing, gentling, dampening, moderating, tempering, assuaging, mollifying, dulling, diminishing, abating, melting, malaxation, tenderization, hardening, inteneration, toughening, fluidification, tenderisation, wetting, moisturizing, plasticization, elasticization, water softening, solubilization, fusion, thawing, porosification, souring, whitening, cold working, fabric softener, gelatinization, colliquation, defrosting, annealment, soilization, calefaction, lighting, melt, transparentization, pulping, slimming, fluidization, solidification, dissolving, dryout, remoisturization, degelification, thaw, emulsification, illiquation, medullization, annealing, plastifier, frigidization, texturization, pulpification, hypotonization, solution
Similar Sounds
softening, siphoning, syphoning, stiffening, siphonage, hyphening, softens, stunning, sickening, soften, softened, sunning, softener, coffining, deafening, toughening, orphaning, roughening, sinning, sining, skinning, seafaring, saufen, saphenous, cyanin, safranin, saphena, swooning, swanning, siphons, smoothening, suffering, signing, seasoning, scanning, siphon, saddening, sifting, staining, stoning, surfacing, syphon, summoning, summing, succumbing, slumming, cyphering, siphoned, sufficing, ciphering, soughing, stumming, safing, syphoned, surfeiting, seining, siamang, cyanine, sofa king, hoffnung, scumming, softeners, sephen, schoening, steining, cephalin, syphering, steaning, zoffany, cnn, cnm, swimming, swinging, defining, refining, zephaniah, heavening, swingeing, havening, singing, spinning, softness, stinging, slinging, skimming, savanah, slimming, stemming, cname, sofian, solanum, sweetening, senil, pseudonym, moening, salling, cephalon, sanctioning, ossining, ossifying