To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm.

To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.

cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

make less rigid or softer

make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism"