amollir

Pour cela entre elle et l'écran insèrent prudemment les coins en bois et versent un peu d'eau pour amollir l'argile.
For this purpose between it and a board cautiously insert wooden wedges and pour in a few waters to soften clay.
Et bientôt, machinalement, accablé par la morne journée et la perspective d’un triste lendemain, je portai à mes lèvres une cuillerée du thé où j’avais laissé s’amollir un morceau de madeleine.
And soon, mechanically, dispirited after a dreary day with the prospect of a depressing morrow, I raised to my lips a spoonful of the tea in which I had soaked a morsel of the cake.
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