Usually means: Reduces piano tone and volume.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word soft pedal:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. soft pedal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. soft-pedal, soft pedal: Merriam-Webster
  3. soft pedal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. soft-pedal, soft pedal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. soft-pedal, soft-pedal, soft pedal: Collins English Dictionary
  6. soft-pedal, soft pedal: Vocabulary.com
  7. soft-pedal: Wordnik
  8. soft-pedal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. soft-pedal, soft pedal: Wiktionary
  10. soft-pedal, soft pedal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. soft pedal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. soft-pedal, soft pedal: Dictionary.com
  13. soft-pedal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Soft-pedal, Soft pedal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. soft-pedal, soft pedal: Rhymezone
  16. soft-pedal, soft pedal: FreeDictionary.org
  17. soft-pedal, soft pedal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. soft-pedal, soft pedal: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. soft-pedal, soft pedal: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. soft-pedal, soft pedal: Idioms

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See soft_pedaling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (soft pedal)

noun:  (music, also attributively) The leftmost foot-pedal on most pianos which, when pushed, dampens the strings and so softens the note played.

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