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Answer for the clue "Horribly grim aunt mellowing perhaps ", 8 letters:
maturing

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mature \Ma*ture"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Matured ; p. pr. & vb. n. Maturing .] [See Maturate , Mature .] To bring or hasten to maturity; to promote ripeness in; to ripen; to complete; as, to mature one's plans. --Bacon.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of mature English)

Usage examples of maturing.

Again, the cause of barrenness may either be a diseased condition of the ovaries, preventing them from maturing healthy germs, or chronic inflammation of the mucous membrane of the neck of the uterus, which does not render conception impossible, but improbable.

All in all, it had been quite a debacle, but it had also been a maturing experience.

He kept the most careful eye on every possible source of disturbance to this quietly maturing plan.

No, most probably we have two different societies maturing here, separated by an oceanic rift.

I was maturing unusually quickly for my kind, but never quickly enough to suit Ersh or myself.

She was far too young for that aspect of maturing to have touched her.

Much as he enjoyed maturing his ghost plot, he enjoyed still more the confidential talks with Kate that had sprung out of it, and he was sorry that this was to be the last of them.

Musgrave and Lawley were both confidingly asleep, while he sat up alert and vigilant maturing a mischievous plot that had for its object the awakening and scaring of both the innocent sleepers.

I believe Baltimore and Savannah limit, northward and southward, the region wherein the maturing process can be thoroughly perfected.

It is the Presence, maturing within Carol Stevens, growing stronger with each passing day.