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▸ verb: To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
▸ verb: (figuratively) To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
▸ verb: (figuratively) To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
▸ verb: (intransitive, figuratively) Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
Similar:
play down,
pedal,
backpedal,
pedal squares,
pedipulate,
saddle,
floor,
soft shoe,
heavy-foot,
treddle,
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