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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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