blur the line
de-emphasize
minimand
shrug off
destress
de-emphasis
water down
outside
normalize
soften
befog
palliate
take away
mitigate
extenuate
minimize
minimizable
dissimilate
downplay
minimizer
de-emphasise
defuse
obscurantism
counterview
minimise
belittling
depreciatory
slighting
deprecatory
depreciative
deprecating
deprecative
reduce
blur
underplay
stick to one's text
degrow
downtone
dim
straighten out
downrate
blind
underrecognize
distract
underkeep
mince
deaden
fog
damp
moderate
dampen
disincline
coarsen
reductive
skate over
lay aside
exophobic
better
indifferentiate
sidetrack
interdistinguish
peripheralize
underactuate
modify
sanitize
underemphasize
stifle
undertone
minimitude
retrenchment
unselective
cool
no big whoop
sanitise
bat away
close up
keep away from
overemphasize
jump
I've got news for you
backpedal
drop
bated
circumscribe
contrast
conflate
decoct
subordinate
disjustive
rebate
shorten
misfavor
elementalize
minimizable
belittling
depreciatory
slighting
deprecatory
depreciative
deprecating
deprecative
reductive
exophobic
unselective
bated
disjustive
minimand
de-emphasis
minimizer
obscurantism
counterview
better
minimitude
retrenchment
no big whoop
blur the line
de-emphasize
shrug off
destress
water down
outside
normalize
soften
befog
palliate
take away
mitigate
extenuate
minimize
dissimilate
downplay
de-emphasise
defuse
minimise
reduce
blur
underplay
stick to one's text
degrow
downtone
dim
straighten out
downrate
blind
underrecognize
distract
underkeep
mince
deaden
fog
damp
moderate
dampen
disincline
coarsen
skate over
lay aside
indifferentiate
sidetrack
interdistinguish
peripheralize
underactuate
modify
sanitize
underemphasize
stifle
undertone
cool
sanitise
bat away
close up
keep away from
overemphasize
jump
backpedal
drop
circumscribe
contrast
conflate
decoct
subordinate
rebate
shorten
misfavor
elementalize
verb
adj
- Away from the interior or center of something.
- Originating from, arranged by, or being someone outside an organization, group, etc.
- Of, pertaining to or originating from beyond the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Extending or going beyond the borders or scope of an organization, group, etc.
- Away (far) from the batter as it crosses home plate.
- Reaching the extreme or farthest limit, as to extent, quantity, etc; maximum.
- Positioned towards the shoulder of a road: towards the left-hand side if one drives on the left, or right-hand side if one drives on the right.
- Of or pertaining to the outer surface, limit or boundary.
- Not legally married to or related to (e.g. not born in wedlock to), and/or not residing with, a specified other person (parent, child, or partner); (of a marriage, relationship, etc) existing between two such people. (Compare out of wedlock, nonresidential.)
- Positioned towards the central division of a road: towards the right-hand side if one drives on the left, or left-hand side if one drives on the right.
adv
- Outdoors.
- To or in the outdoors or outside; to or in an area that is beyond the scope, limits, or borders of a given place.
- Not in prison.
prep
- Near, but not in.
- Except, apart from.
- Beyond the scope, limits, or borders of.
- On the outside of, not inside (something, such as a building).
noun
- The part of a road towards the central division: towards the right if one drives on the left, or towards the left if one drives on the right.
- The side of a curved road, racetrack etc. that has the longer arc length; the side of a racetrack furthest from the interior of the course or some other point of reference.
- The outer part of the sea, away from the peak of a wave.
- The part of something that faces out; the outer surface.
- The external appearance of someone or something.
- The space beyond some limit or boundary.
- The furthest limit, as to number, quantity, extent, etc.
verb
- To reduce the variations by excluding irrelevant aspects.
- To anneal (steel) for the purpose of decreasing brittleness and increasing ductility.
- To make normal, to make standard.
- To return a set of points (switches) to the normal position.
- To divide a vector by its magnitude to produce a unit vector.
- To return to the normal position from the reverse position.
- To format in a standardized manner, to make consistent.
- To subject to normalization; to eliminate redundancy in (a model for storing data).
verb
- To subtract or diminish something.
- To remove something and put it in a different place.
- To leave a memory or impression in one's mind that you think about later.
- To make someone leave a place and go somewhere else. Usually not with the person's consent.
- To remove a person, usually a family member or other close friend or acquaintance, by kidnapping or killing the person.
- To prevent, or limit, someone from being somewhere, or from doing something.
- To remove something, either material or abstract, so that a person no longer has it.
noun
prep
verb
verb
- lessen and make more modest
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- make less complex
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- be the essential element
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- make smaller
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- narrow or limit
- put down by force or intimidation
- undergo meiosis
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- cook until very little liquid is left
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- take off weight
verb
- make dim by comparison or conceal
- switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
- become dim or lusterless
- make dim or lusterless
- become vague or indistinct
adj
- lacking in light; not bright or harsh
- lacking clarity or distinctness
- offering little or no hope
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
adj
verb
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible
- cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
- make vapid or deprive of spirit
- lessen the momentum or velocity of
- become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
verb
- To make dim or obscure.
- To become obscured in condensation or water.
- To practice in a small or mean way; to pettifog.
- To cover with or as if with fog.
- To obscure in condensation or water.
- To spoil (film) via exposure to light other than in the normal process of taking a photograph.
- To disperse insecticide into (a forest canopy) so as to collect organisms.
- To become dim or obscure.
- To make confusing or obscure.
- To pasture cattle on the fog (of), or aftergrass, of; to eat off the fog from (a field).
- To become covered with or as if with fog.
- To become covered with the kind of grass called fog.
noun
- A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image.
- A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed.
- Distance fog.
- A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion.
- A mist or film clouding a surface.
- Tall and decaying grass left standing after the cutting or grazing season.
- A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. (Compare mist, haze.)
- Moss.
noun
- the superior one of two alternatives
- something superior in quality or condition or effect
- someone who bets
- a superior person having claim to precedence
adj
- (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another
- (comparative of `good') changed for the better in health or fitness
adv
- comparative of `well'; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.
- from a position of superiority or authority
adj
- (comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable
- more than half
verb
verb
- To deviate briefly from the topic at hand.
- To sideline; to push aside; to divert or distract from, reducing (something) to a secondary or subordinate position.
- To divert (a locomotive or train) on to a lesser used track in order to allow other trains to pass.
- To divert or distract (someone) from a main issue or course of action with an alternate or less relevant topic or activity; or, to use deliberate trickery or sly wordplay when talking to (a person) in order to avoid discussion of a subject.
noun
- An alternate train of thought, issue, topic, or activity, that is a deviation or distraction from the topic at hand or central activity, and secondary or subordinate in importance or effectiveness.
- A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for unloading freight, or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction); a railroad siding.
- Any auxiliary railroad track, as differentiated from a siding, that runs adjacent to the main track.
- A smaller tunnel or well drilled as an auxiliary off a main tunnel or well.
verb
- To present as less important, noticeable or prominent.
- To accompany as an undertone.
- To say or speak in an undertone.
noun
- A pale colour, or one seen underneath another colour.
- A low state of the physical faculties.
- An implicit message perceived subtly alongside, but not detracting noticeably from, the explicit message conveyed in or by a book, film, verbal dialogue or similar (contrast with overtone); an undercurrent.
- An auditory tone of low pitch or volume.
verb
- To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- To lose heat, to get colder.
- To make cooler, less warm.
- To kill.
- To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
adj
- Of an action, all right; acceptable; that does not present a problem.
- Calmly audacious.
- Allowing or suggesting heat relief.
- Very interesting or exciting.
- (followed by with) Able to tolerate; to be fine with.
- Of a person, knowing what to do and how to behave; considered popular by others.
- (of an act or situation) annoying, irritating.
- (of a pair of people) holding no grudge against one another; having no beef.
- Having a slightly low temperature; mildly or pleasantly cold.
- Of a person, not showing emotion; calm and in control of oneself.
- Applied facetiously to a sum of money, commonly as if to give emphasis to the largeness of the amount.
- In fashion and fancy, part of or befitting the most leading trends and habits of the in crowd; originally hipster slang.
- Of a color, in the range of violet to green.
- Unenthusiastic, lukewarm, skeptical.
noun
verb
- To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
- To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
- To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- To bore with a jumper.
- To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
- To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
- To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
- To attack suddenly and violently.
- To cause to jump.
- To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
- To engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
- To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
- To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
- To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound) by jerking the body violently.
- To join by a buttweld.
- To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
- To increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
- To move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
- To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
noun
- An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
- An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
- An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
- A kind of loose jacket for men.
- An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
- A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
- A jumping move in a board game.
- An early start or an advantage.
- An effort; an attempt; a venture.
- A change of the path of execution to a different location.
- An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
- A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
- An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
- An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
- An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
- A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
- An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
- Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”)
- The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
verb
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
verb
noun
- the opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared
- the act of distinguishing by comparing differences
- a conceptual separation or distinction
- the perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors
- the range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)
verb
- To treat as of less value or importance.
- To make subservient.
- To make of lower priority in order of payment in bankruptcy.
adj
- Descending in a regular series.
- Placed in a lower class, rank, or position.
- dependent on and either modifying or complementing the main clause
- Submissive or inferior to, or controlled by authority.
noun
verb
- To diminish or lessen something
- To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment
- To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise.
- To cut a rebate (or rabbet) in something
- To abate; to withdraw.
- Of a falcon: to return to the hand after bating; see bate².
noun
- An iron tool sharpened something like a chisel, and used for dressing and polishing wood.
- A kind of hard freestone used in making pavements.
- The return of part of an amount already paid.
- The edge of a roll of film, from which no image can be developed.
- A deduction from an amount that is paid; an abatement.
- A piece of wood hafted into a long stick, and serving to beat out mortar.
- A rectangular groove made to hold two pieces (of wood etc) together; a rabbet.
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