soften up

102 Moby Thesaurus words for "soften up":
      abate, affect, attenuate, beleaguer, bend, beset, besiege, bias,
      blarney, blockade, blunt, butter, butter up, color, cramp, cripple,
      cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, devitalize, dispose,
      dull, ease, encircle, encompass, enervate, enfeeble, envelop,
      eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fluff, gentle, get around, gruel,
      harass, harry, honey, incline, induce, influence, invest, jolly,
      kid along, knead, laxate, lay it on, lay low, lay siege to, lead,
      limber, limber up, loosen, mash, massage, mellow, milden, mitigate,
      mollify, move, oil, overdo it, persuade, play up to, plump,
      predispose, prompt, pulp, rattle, reduce, relax, sap, shake,
      shake up, smash, soap, soft-soap, soften, squash, string along,
      stroke, subdue, supple, surround, sway, tenderize, tinge, tone,
      tone down, tune down, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve,
      unstrengthen, unstring, weaken, wear down, weigh with, work