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PLAY DOWN

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Understate the importance or quality ofplay

Example:

he played down his royal ancestry

Synonyms:

background; downplay; play down

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "play down" is one way to...):

accent; accentuate; emphasise; emphasize; punctuate; stress (to stress, single out as important)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "play down"):

wave off (dismiss as insignificant)

soft-pedal (play down or obscure)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Antonym:

play up (move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent)

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