soft-pedal
21soft pedal — /ˈsɒft pɛdl/ (say soft pedl) noun a pedal, as on a piano, for lessening the volume …
22soft pedal — noun Date: 1854 1. a foot pedal on a piano that reduces the volume of sound 2. something that muffles, deadens, or reduces effect …
23soft pedal — noun The leftmost foot pedal on a piano …
24soft-pedal — verb Attempting to persuade without being obvious about it, by understating a position so the listener takes the good points as obvious. See Also: soft sell …
25soft-pedal — verb play down or obscure His advisers soft pedaled the president s blunder • Hypernyms: ↑background, ↑play down, ↑downplay • Verb Frames: Somebody s something Something s something …
26soft 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,… …
27soft-pedal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. tone down, suppress (see moderation, suppression). II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) v. play down, tone down, understate. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb Informal. To make less emphatic or obvious: de… …
28soft pedal — verb (T) informal to make something seem less important or less urgent than it really is …
29soft-ped|al — soft pedal, a pedal for softening the tone of a piano. soft ped|al «SFT PEHD uhl, SOFT », verb, aled, al|ing or (especially British) alled, al|ling. –v.t. 1. to soften the sound of by means of the soft pedal …
30soft — adj., adv., & n. adj. 1 (of a substance, material, etc.) lacking hardness or firmness; yielding to pressure; easily cut. 2 (of cloth etc.) having a smooth surface or texture; not rough or coarse. 3 (of air etc.) mellow, mild, balmy; not… …
