Sunday, 13 May 2012

downplay


verb 

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Definition

to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is
The government has been trying to downplay the crisis.
(Definition of downplay verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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