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Mellowed

adjective

Having a full and pleasing flavor through proper aging. Synonym: mellow. "Mellowed fruit"

Having attained to kindliness or gentleness through age and experience. Synonym: mellow. "The peace of mellow age"

Mellow

verb

(past & past part. mellowed; pres. part. mellowing)

Soften, make mellow.

Become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial. Synonyms: mellow out, melt.

Make or grow (more) mellow. "The sun mellowed the fruit"

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... have her go to sleep in his arms like this. He trembled with the joy of holding her, looking at her face with eyes of tenderest love, rejoicing in her, worshipping her. He went over the things she had said, his whole being mellowed, divinely exultant, at thought of her going to sleep just because she was tired from her day of happiness. Long ago his mother had taught him to pray, and he prayed now that he might keep her always as she was to-day, ...

— The Glory Of The Conquered • Susan Glaspell

... among which the exotic poet ranged, a long list might be compiled; nor will the pleasant sounds of the afternoon be set down in formal order to the vexing of his memory, for possibly he never heard the whoop and gurgle of the swamp pheasant or the blended voices of hundreds of nutmeg pigeons mellowed by half a ...

— Tropic Days • E. J. Banfield

... finished his own bottle and from his rags fished forth a second one, their brains were well-mellowed and a- glow, although they had not got around to telling their real names. But their English had improved. They spoke it correctly, while the argo of tramp-land ceased ...

— The Red One • Jack London

... assumed a flush of transient beauty; and the emerald-green patches on the hill-sides, barred by the plough lengthwise, diagonally, and transverse, had borrowed an aspect of soft and velvety richness, from the mellowed light and the broadening shadows. All was solitary. We could see among the deserted fields the grass-grown foundations of cottages razed to the ground; but the valley, more desolate than that which we had left, had not even its single inhabited dwelling: it seemed as if man had done with it ...

— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller

... before there was every appearance of a heavy N. E. storm. But Sabbath morning it was calm. As I went to church I noticed that the sun rested on the Vermont mountains just north of us, though with a mellowed light as if a veil had been thrown over them. In the after part of the day the open sky had spread southward—so that the interment took place when the air was as mild and serene as spring, just as the ...

— The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss • George L. Prentiss

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