soften/cushion the blow

soften/cushion the ˈblowto make sth that is unpleasant seem less unpleasant and easier to accept缓解；缓和

• boundedly
• nonlethals
• echinopsine
• on this condition
• carry-out
• politenesses
• make a book
• Cerambycidae
• yamalkas
• oleas
• hot cap
• Prag
• organ of Corti
• octothorps
• bloody flux
• toolsheds
• steam port
• featherweight
• Fidelism
• sidevalve
• fluidized-bed coating
• symbolists
• rowlock
• voiture
• like geese on a common
• get someone's goat
• nascars
• dramatic ironies
• profit-making
• mundics
• crumbers
• don't ask
• Sally Army
• coil break
• spic-and-span
• tenore robusto
• phagocytized
• gaultheria
• Ojibwas
• surface-wave transmission line
• believability
• flood in
• Copepoda
• Krio
• infernal
• treat ... with
• criterions
• weepily
• desert dolly
• fling to the wind s
• gunflints
• mutineer
• droopy drawers
• cofunction
• ropemakeer
• court-martial
• in want of
• frother
• focalisation
• taxies
• penniform
• larcener
• hero-worshipful
• tartaric
• Arizona
• immunoprecipitations
• Bergmann's rule
• biological psychiatrist
• commentarial
• administratorships
• slud
• Carola
• loran chart
• shine up to
• F. R. S.
• punjabs
• at hack
• ruddevator
• cerebral hemisphere
• assortments
• self-devoting
• melodic minor scale
• responsible job / position
• blaffer
• air curtain
• with age
• persist with
• hypogea
• Targumist
• upsteps
• ankaramite
• dexiocardia
• house furnishings
• primus
• sinkless
• X-ray nova
• merge sort
• two-gap head
• bahamite
• wyvern