"soften up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "softens up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softening up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softened up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softened up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "soften up (third-person singular simple present softens up, present participle softening up, simple past and past participle softened up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make softer."
      ],
      "id": "en-soften_up-en-verb-VD5zt9Lq",
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "softer",
          "softer"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "38 58 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "33 55 13",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "17 54 30",
          "word": "soften up the ground"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appease someone in order to make them more receptive to an idea or proposal."
      ],
      "id": "en-soften_up-en-verb-BobuXMHk",
      "links": [
        [
          "appease",
          "appease"
        ],
        [
          "receptive",
          "receptive"
        ],
        [
          "idea",
          "idea"
        ],
        [
          "proposal",
          "proposal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension, idiomatic) To appease someone in order to make them more receptive to an idea or proposal."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 97 3",
          "sense": "to appease someone",
          "word": "to butter up"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, J.A. Jance, Death of a Snowbird",
          "text": "That was what Agnes thought at two o'clock in the afternoon, but by evening she had softened up some.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become less committed to something."
      ],
      "id": "en-soften_up-en-verb-~cz9utyc"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soften up"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "soften up the ground"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "softens up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softening up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softened up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "softened up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "soften up (third-person singular simple present softens up, present participle softening up, simple past and past participle softened up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To make softer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "make",
          "make#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "softer",
          "softer"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To appease someone in order to make them more receptive to an idea or proposal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "appease",
          "appease"
        ],
        [
          "receptive",
          "receptive"
        ],
        [
          "idea",
          "idea"
        ],
        [
          "proposal",
          "proposal"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension, idiomatic) To appease someone in order to make them more receptive to an idea or proposal."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, J.A. Jance, Death of a Snowbird",
          "text": "That was what Agnes thought at two o'clock in the afternoon, but by evening she had softened up some.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become less committed to something."
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "to appease someone",
      "word": "to butter up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "soften up"
}