downtone (English, verb)
expansion: downtone (third-person singular simple present downtones, present participle downtoning, simple past and past participle downtoned)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To tone down; to make less emphatic or significant; to downplay.
tags: transitive
Forms:
form: downtones
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: downtoning
tags: participle
present
form: downtoned
tags: participle
past
form: downtoned
tags: past