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- make something seem less important, likely, or obvious. The essay attempts to play down the role slavery had in the Civil War. The senator played down the...1 KB (145 words) - 08:32, 2 June 2024
- about (someone or something); to judge or describe (someone or something) as having a particular character or feature. Synonym: put down as 2022 July 8,...1 KB (203 words) - 03:13, 2 February 2024
- downplay (category English terms prefixed with down-)form play down is slightly more formal, or slightly less informal. play down trivialize understate to de-emphasize; to present or portray something as less...2 KB (93 words) - 11:28, 30 August 2024
- Cupid play date playdate playday play dead play dirty play doctor play-doh playdough play down playdown play dumb play equipment player playette play fair...62 KB (4,555 words) - 03:28, 24 September 2024
- (uncountable) (idiomatic) Something particularly easy or simple. Synonyms: kid stuff, piece of cake Compared to my last job, this is child’s play. 1839 (indicated...4 KB (303 words) - 18:02, 2 June 2024
- hit or knock (something or someone), intentionally or accidentally, so that it falls. As I took the can off the shelf, I knocked down the one beside...4 KB (425 words) - 00:16, 28 July 2024
- amp down bag down ball down bar down be down with belt down bid down blaze down bolt down bone down bottle down bowl down break-down breast down bring...55 KB (5,362 words) - 09:33, 11 September 2024
- Antonym: play down For the audition, Nicole will play up her skill as a pianist by playing Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach. (intransitive) To play (e.g...2 KB (291 words) - 22:43, 18 August 2024
- horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier. (transitive) To fiddle with; make small adjustments to, for example to something mechanical in order to...2 KB (262 words) - 03:25, 2 February 2024
- participle and gerund of downplay downplaying (plural downplayings) The act by which something is downplayed, or made to seem less important. playing down...244 bytes (25 words) - 07:56, 28 July 2023
- past and past participle de-emphasized) (transitive) To remove or reduce the emphasis from something; to make something less important; to play down....427 bytes (54 words) - 02:12, 19 August 2024
- godown go down (third-person singular simple present goes down, present participle going down, simple past went down, past participle gone down) Used other...13 KB (1,158 words) - 20:21, 13 July 2024
- From re- + play + -ing. replaying present participle and gerund of replay replaying (plural replayings) The act by which something is replayed. It took...373 bytes (37 words) - 04:48, 19 August 2024
- details or facts about something. 1863, January 21, 1863, The Tri-Weekly Telegraph, newspaper of Houston, Texas When you come down to brass tacks – if we...4 KB (460 words) - 06:54, 14 September 2024
- York, retrieved 2 May 2019: “There’s an important role to play on the outside, banging down the door, on bended knee, trying to change the system,” she...1 KB (163 words) - 14:59, 14 June 2023
- simple past rang down the curtain, past participle rung down the curtain) (idiomatic) To end something. 1876, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder...3 KB (445 words) - 14:46, 2 June 2024
- chiefly in the plural) A playing card, dealt face down, that the holder need not reveal until the showdown. (by extension) Something held in reserve, or concealed...451 bytes (48 words) - 06:52, 6 September 2024
- (reflexive with се) to be played, to take place (of something involving playing or competing) (reflexive with се) to unfold, go down, take place Conjugation...553 bytes (76 words) - 18:45, 28 August 2022
- (reflexive with се) to be played, to take place (of something involving playing or competing) (reflexive with се) to unfold, go down, take place Conjugation...564 bytes (76 words) - 18:45, 28 August 2022
- or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down. Synonyms: de-emphasize...3 KB (322 words) - 21:20, 21 May 2024