soften someone's cough (English, verb)
expansion: soften someone's cough (third-person singular simple present softens someone's cough, present participle softening someone's cough, simple past and past participle softened someone's cough)
Senses:
glosses: To completely negate or undermine someone's argument or position on a topic.
tags: Ireland
idiomatic
glosses: To humble or humiliate; put someone in his place.
tags: Ireland
idiomatic
glosses: To ease or sooth someone's cough.
tags: Ireland
Forms:
form: softens someone's cough
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: softening someone's cough
tags: participle
present
form: softened someone's cough
tags: participle
past
form: softened someone's cough
tags: past