soften （或cushion） the blow

soften （或cushion） the blow make it easier to cope with a difficult change or upsetting news 使困难的事情易于处理; 使不好的消息易于接受, 安抚： monetary compensation was offered to soften the blow 提供金钱赔偿以示安抚。

• odontolites
• chalkings
• zero-point energy
• haustoria
• sick to death of
• frigidaria
• relief tube
• solon
• gainsaid
• ignorable coordinates
• Malinowski, Bronislaw
• preprogram
• planetoid
• clime
• (do sth)with fidelity
• suidaes
• turn up one's toes
• olistoliths
• step into someone's shoes
• cryolithionite
• disinformer
• conservatorships
• abatement pier
• hyperimmune
• attorney in fact
• copy-protected
• rottennesses
• tackings
• digitalizing
• alloverishness
• think straight
• chillnesses
• no doubt
• b.f.p
• field luminance
• definitising
• show your hand/cards
• betrotheds
• coralline algae
• find a pretext for
• Chrysophyceae
• asseverate
• see-through
• cumbersomely
• purchaseless
• syncarp
• probabilists
• dramaticss
• fruiter
• lavatorial bombing
• bloodstain
• tessella
• podsolized
• headmen
• overrespond
• celestial fixing
• Edison battery
• exactors
• nontrivially
• sost.
• batteling
• fifth part
• sell sb/yourself short
• crevassing
• disclaim
• dreamy
• reword
• Hashemites
• ondoscope
• air-depot
• northeast by north
• concoctor
• guitarfish
• condescend
• guidebooky
• ayin
• ball-bearing hinge
• malefactresses
• Esquimauan
• human races
• burn-bag
• Sloan's liniment
• full-bottomed
• pubescents
• polar map projection
• discordant bedding
• Tengri Nor
• just for the hell of it
• intenerated
• abreast of the times
• Pollutant Standards Index
• exacters
• Caxton
• fettle of kitsch
• self-differentiation
• l.l
• Beelzebubs
• sphaerobolaceaes
• conveyorise
• Deurne