Related Clues:

• Conciliate
• Treat leniently, with 'on'
• Reduce the mineral content of, as water
• Start to melt
• Make less hard
• Grow less adamant
• Lose one's resolve
• Become lenient, as on crime
• Take it easy, with 'on'
• Show sympathy toward, with "on"
• Make or become less hard
• Make less hard or become less severe
• Frequently it's the South that does not get hard
• Is the South frequently not the way to make it hard
• It's not hard to make it frequently like the end of itself