- play down as a verb:
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play down
verb
1 play down
Understate the importance or quality of.
synonyms: background, downplay.
Moby thesaurus: abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, bedwarf, belittle, blunt, chasten, constrain, control, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deprecate, depreciate, detract from, diminish ... show more.
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