dull varnish
31diminish — Synonyms and related words: abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, ablate, abrade, abridge, abstract, abuse, adjust to, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be eaten away, belittle …
32ease — Synonyms and related words: Atticism, Bohemianism, Easy Street, abandon, abate, abatement, abet, abundance, acceptance, adeptness, adroitness, advance, affability, affluence, aid, alienation, allay, allayment, alleviate, alleviation, allow for,… …
33extenuate — Synonyms and related words: abate, allay, alleviate, allow for, apologize, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, blunt, chasten, color, constrain, control, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, de emphasize, deaden, debilitate, devitalize,… …
34lessen — Synonyms and related words: abate, ablate, abrade, abridge, abstract, allay, alleviate, allow for, amputate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, bate, be eaten away, benumb, blunt, chasten, clip, close, color, compress,… …
35medium — Synonyms and related words: Charlie McCarthy, actor, agency, agent, air brush, ambiance, ambience, ambient, amidships, ancilla, appliance, approach, arbitrator, arc, arc light, architect, art paper, atmosphere, atoms, autecology, author,… …
36mitigate — Synonyms and related words: abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, ameliorate, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, benumb,… …
37obscure — Synonyms and related words: Cimmerian, abstruse, adiaphanous, adumbrate, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphic, amorphous, amphibological, anarchic, anonymous, apply to, arcane, around the bush, back of beyond, baffling, baggy, bandage,… …
38palliate — Synonyms and related words: abate, adjust to, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, anesthetize, appease, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, benumb, blunt, box in, camouflage, chasten, circumscribe, cloak, color, conceal, condition, condone,… …
39soft pedal — Synonyms and related words: allow for, baffle, choke, choke off, color, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, deafen, diminish, dull, dumbfound, ease, extenuate, gag, gloss over, hush, hush hush, ignore, lessen, make allowance for, mince, mitigate,… …
40soften — Synonyms and related words: abate, absorb the shock, adjust to, affect, agree, allay, alleviate, allow for, alter, anesthetize, appease, assent, assuage, attemper, baffle, bank the fire, benumb, blunt, blur, box in, break the fall, castrate,… …
