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Synonyms for tone down
tone down
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Princeton's WordNet
muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone downverb
deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
Synonyms:
muffle, wash, stifle, mute, pall, numb, moderate, moisten, weaken, benumb, repress, break, soften, dull, smother, blunt, deaden, damp, dampen, tame, strangletone down, moderate, tameverb
make less strong or intense; soften
"Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
Synonyms:
lead, temper, muffle, mince, hold in, tame, cultivate, mute, domesticize, naturalise, control, chair, moderate, hold, reclaim, naturalize, check, domesticate, soften, domesticise, damp, dampen, chasten, curb, dull, subdue, contain
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#272 | check | |
#333 | control | |
#1176 | lead | |
#1275 | hold | |
#1618 | break | |
#1990 | chair | |
#2700 | contain | |
#5204 | wash | |
#5420 | moderate | |
#11372 | blunt | |
#12551 | curb | |
#13293 | dull | |
#15923 | mute | |
#18220 | damp | |
#19215 | temper | |
#22636 | reclaim | |
#22879 | tame | |
#23051 | numb | |
#24442 | cultivate | |
#25411 | weaken | |
#27773 | smother | |
#30385 | soften | |
#35818 | pall | |
#43067 | stifle | |
#50453 | mince | |
#51445 | dampen | |
#54755 | subdue | |
#56041 | repress | |
#60869 | strangle | |
#87201 | moisten | |
#115405 | muffle | |
#158158 | deaden | |
#166077 | naturalize | |
#182964 | domesticate | |
#246567 | chasten |
How to use tone down in a sentence?
No one is going to want to tone down things when you see what's going on in a place like New York City.
I believed Anita Hill, and my one regret is that I wasn't able to tone down the attacks on Anita Hill by some of my Republican friends. I mean, they really went after Anita Hill. As much as I tried to intervene, I did not have the power to gavel them out of order.
He wants to come across and brand himself as a leader who is modern and competent, rather than a descendant of his predecessors, and he wants to gradually tone down the idolization of the two late leaders as it goes against his agenda to brand the North as a normal state.
We can't keep replacing insecticides every (few) years forever, in the long run we need an exit from this arms race. Either that, or we need to tone down the (insecticide) coverage.
Enough is enough, we need to tone down the rhetoric and rally in support of law enforcement and against lawlessness.
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