mollify
verb (used with object)
mollifies
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present tense formof mollify (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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"It mollifies the entire course of postoperative pain."
From Time Magazine Archive
He mollifies a suspicious Senate subcommittee Did he or didn't he?
From Time Magazine Archive
So, so; she mollifies apace—she's struck with my figure! this attitude has had its effect.
From The Duenna by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He's half started to bow his neck at Boggs, but they mollifies him.
From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton
Well; this mollifies a little: I am content he shall see me.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
