downtone
English
Etymology
down + tone
Verb
downtone (third-person singular simple present downtones, present participle downtoning, simple past and past participle downtoned)
- (linguistics, transitive) To tone down; to make less emphatic or significant; to downplay.
Antonyms
- intensify
Derived terms
- downtoner
Anagrams
- note down, tone down