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MELLOWING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mellowing mean?
• MELLOWING (noun)
The noun MELLOWING has 1 sense:
1. the process of becoming mellow
Familiarity information: MELLOWING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of becoming mellow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("mellowing" is a kind of...):
ageing; aging; ripening (acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time)
Derivation:
mellow (make or grow (more) mellow)
mellow (become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial)
mellow (soften, make mellow)
Context examples
All the valley at my right hand was full of pasture- fields, and cornfields, and wood; and a glittering stream ran zig-zag through the varied shades of green, the mellowing grain, the sombre woodland, the clear and sunny lea.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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