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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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"Mellowed" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hiram nothing? In his bitter moments he had thought so, but to-day his thoughts were mellowed. He was on the eve of leaving everything that held memories of them. Had they not given him of themselves a love for the grandeur of these woods which touched no other soul, save Uncle Sebastian's, perhaps, in all the valley? Hiram saw more in a redwood ...

— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins

... and the short of it all is that next day the Fynes made up their minds to take into their confidence a certain wealthy old lady. With certain old ladies the passing years bring back a sort of mellowed youthfulness of feeling, an optimistic outlook, liking for novelty, readiness for experiment. The old lady was very much interested: "Do let me see the poor thing!" She was accordingly allowed to see Flora de Barral in ...

— Chance - A Tale in Two Parts • Joseph Conrad

... lifted his hat. Now that he smiled his face was even kindlier, and he, too, had a pleasant, mellowed utterance that linked him with the world of superior quality of which David had had ...

— The Emigrant Trail • Geraldine Bonner

... desired to produce for any given emotional state. Forward production—vibration appearing to centre a little back of the upper front teeth—is, as a general thing, the best. Yet a voice brilliant to the point of hardness can be mellowed by middle or backward production. These are matters of judgment. But when I am told, as I was by a young girl, that she was being taught to centre the tone-vibrations "back of her eyes," all I can ...

— The Voice - Its Production, Care and Preservation • Frank E. Miller

... paid for out of his private income—the bacon, beans, tea, coffee and flour—had been raided by a band of hostile Indians, and he viewed with deep concern the progress of the severe winter. Although three years of hard, frugal life had made his muscles like iron, they had only mellowed his temper, increased his flesh and rounded his face; nor did he look an hour older than on the day when he had won Wingo for his willing ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

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