downtone
palliate
extenuate
mitigate
soft-pedal
abirritate
de-emphasize
distune
downplay
vilify
mellow
deepen
diss
hebetate
mistone
disedge
mince
cool
tone down
distemper
take the edge off
stupefy
dampen
reduce
unbombast
unperk
dispirit
downplaying
mess with
downstrike
underrecognize
pitch
unmind
embellish
instimulate
debase
flat
subordinate
speech is silver, silence is golden
encalm
down
grim
bedumb
swish
subduedness
understate
wax down
kayo
deaden
lighten
underimpress
deflate
dampen down
defuse
blunt
pseudoreduction
disincline
textualize
dull
damp down
slighten
downrate
displease
put out
three bags full, sir
tear down
derogate
quintessentialize
mortify
minimize
condescend
underexpress
unedge
belittle
eclipse
rebate
allay
still
snub
denigrate
Muzak
cloud
loosen someone's tongue
spit it out
deverbalize
relax
conciliate
coarsen
softened
blur the line
clip
low-key
softened
low-key
downplaying
subduedness
pseudoreduction
Muzak
downtone
palliate
extenuate
mitigate
soft-pedal
abirritate
de-emphasize
distune
downplay
vilify
mellow
deepen
diss
hebetate
mistone
disedge
mince
cool
tone down
distemper
take the edge off
stupefy
dampen
reduce
unbombast
unperk
dispirit
mess with
downstrike
underrecognize
pitch
unmind
embellish
instimulate
debase
flat
subordinate
encalm
down
grim
bedumb
swish
understate
wax down
kayo
deaden
lighten
underimpress
deflate
dampen down
defuse
blunt
disincline
textualize
dull
damp down
slighten
downrate
displease
put out
tear down
derogate
quintessentialize
mortify
minimize
condescend
underexpress
unedge
belittle
eclipse
rebate
allay
still
snub
denigrate
cloud
loosen someone's tongue
spit it out
deverbalize
relax
conciliate
coarsen
blur the line
clip
verb
- To reduce the force or impact of (something); to damp, to mute; especially, to minimize the less desirable aspects of (something); to play down, to tone down.
- To attempt to persuade someone about (something) through understatement, so that the listener accepts the good points as obvious.
- To reduce the volume of (music, a sound, etc.).
- Chiefly followed by on: to act in a less assertive or forceful manner.
verb
- To lose harshness; to become gentler, subdued, or toned down.
- To reduce or remove the harshness or roughness from (something); to soften, to subdue, to tone down.
- To cause (food or drink, for example, cheese or wine, or its flavour) to become matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- To mature and lose its harshness or sharpness.
- Followed by out: to relax (a person); in particular, to cause (a person) to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To cause (fruit) to become soft or tender, specifically by ripening.
- To relax; in particular, to become pleasantly high or stoned by taking drugs.
- To be rendered soft and suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become calmer, gentler, and more understanding, particularly from age or experience.
- To soften (land or soil) and make it suitable for planting in.
- To cause (a person) to become slightly or pleasantly drunk or intoxicated.
noun
- The property of being mellow; mellowness.
- Also main mellow: a close friend or lover.
- A comfortable or relaxed mood.
adj
- Soft and easily penetrated or worked; not hard or rigid; loamy.
- Pleasantly high or stoned, and relaxed after taking drugs; also, of drugs: slightly intoxicating and tending to produce such effects.
- Fruitful and warm.
- Matured and smooth, and not acidic, harsh, or sharp.
- Pleasing in some way; excellent, fantastic, great.
- Cheerful, genial, jovial, merry; also, easygoing, laid-back, relaxed.
- Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp.
- Mature; of crops: ready to be harvested; ripe.
- Not coarse, brash, harsh, or rough; delicate, rich, soft, subdued.
- Well-matured from age or experience; not impetuous or impulsive; calm, dignified, gentle.
- Drunk, intoxicated; especially slightly or pleasantly so, or to an extent that makes one cheerful and friendly.
verb
- To make lower in tone
- To become lower in tone
- To make deep or deeper
- To make more sound or heavy.
- To make darker or more intense; to darken
- To become deeper
- To become more intimate.
- To become darker or more intense
- To become more thorough or extensive.
- To make more thorough or extensive.
- To become more sound or heavy.
- To make more intimate.
- To make more poignant or affecting; to increase in degree
verb
- To lessen; to diminish; to diminish in speaking; to speak of lightly or slightingly; to minimise.
- To effect mincingly.
- To cut into very small pieces; to chop finely.
- To make less; to make small.
- To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
- To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
- To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
- To say or utter vaguely (not directly or frankly).
noun
verb
- To make less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate.
- To lose heat, to get colder.
- To make cooler, less warm.
- To kill.
noun
- A moderate or refreshing state of cold; moderate temperature of the air between hot and cold; coolness.
- A calm temperament.
- The property of being cool, popular or in fashion.
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.
verb
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- To intoxicate.
- To paint using distemper.
noun
verb
- To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- To annul by legal means.
- To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- To lose weight.
- To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
- To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- To strike off the payroll.
- To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
- To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- To reform a line or column from (a square).
verb
- To dismay, reject, demote, or render lowly.
- To move downward in a stiking motion.
- To go in a downward direction.
- To arc to ground in a downstrike.
- To strike from above.
- To play a stringed instrument with a downward plucking motion.
- To point (finish a joint) by pressing mortar in at the bottom.
- To strike down; to knock down, kill, or cripple.
noun
- A variety of various devices that operates primarily by a downward striking action.
- A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument.
- A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
- A blow by a hand or weapon that occurs with a downward striking motion.
- A type of manual typewriter that causes the letters to print on the downstroke of the keys and retract as the key rises.
- A bolt of lightning that touches ground.
- A (usually unintended) branch of current that arcs downward to ground.
- A downstroke; a downward movement that terminates in striking something.
adj
adv
verb
- To fix or set the tone of.
- To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
- To throw away; discard.
- To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
- To set or fix.
- To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
- To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
- To attack, or position or assemble for attack.
- To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
- To cover or smear with pitch.
- To throw.
- To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
- To assemble or erect (a tent).
- To move so that the front of an aircraft or boat goes alternatively up and down.
- To bounce on the playing surface.
- To settle and build up, without melting.
- To discard for some gain.
- To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
- To fix one's choice.
- To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
- To produce a note of a given pitch.
- To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
noun
- A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
- A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
- The angle at which an object sits.
- The standard to which a group of musical instruments are tuned or in which a piece is performed, usually by reference to the frequency to which the musical note A above middle C is tuned.
- In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
- An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
- The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare with roll, yaw, and heave.
- The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby, gridiron or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) (Not often used in the US or Canada, where "field" is the preferred word.)
- A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
- A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
- The most thrust-out point of a headland or cape.
- The height a bird reaches in flight, especially a bird of prey preparing to swoop down on its prey.
- The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
- The act of pitching a baseball.
- A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
- The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
- A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
- The field of battle.
- A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
- That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
- The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
- A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
- Pitchstone.
- An effort to sell or promote something.
- The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
- A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
- The place where a busker performs, a prostitute solicits clients, or an illegal gambling game etc. is set up before the public.
- An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
- A person's or animal's height.
- Prominence; importance.
verb
- To depress in tone, as a musical note; especially, to lower in pitch by half a tone.
- To make a flat call; to call without raising.
- To fall from the pitch.
- To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface.
- To dash or throw
- To dash, rush
adj
- Having a head at a very obtuse angle to the shaft.
- Unable to emit power; dead.
- Smooth; having no protrusions, indentations or other surface irregularities, or relatively so.
- Lacking acidity without being sweet.
- Not having an inflectional ending or sign, such as a noun used as an adjective, or an adjective as an adverb, without the addition of a formative suffix; or an infinitive without the sign "to".
- Absolute; downright; peremptory.
- Without variation in tone or hue (uniform), and dull (not glossy).
- Without variation in level, quantity, value, tone etc.
- Of fees, fares etc., fixed; unvarying.
- Lowered by one semitone.
- Without spin; spinless.
- Having small or invisible breasts and/or buttocks.
- At a consistently depressed level; consistently lacklustre.
- Flattening at the ends.
- With all or most of its carbon dioxide having come out of solution so that the drink no longer fizzes or contains any bubbles.
- Exact.
- In a horizontal line or plane; not sloping.
- Lacking liveliness or action; depressed; uninteresting; dull and boring.
- Of a note or voice, lower in pitch than it should be.
- Without variations in pitch.
- Deflated, especially because of a puncture.
- Having no variations in height.
- Lacking in depth, substance, or believability; underdeveloped; one-dimensional.
adv
- Used to emphasize the smallness of the measurement.
- Completely.
- Without allowance for accrued interest.
- Bluntly.
- In the mile race, Smith's time was 3:58.56, and Brown's was four minutes flat.
- Directly; flatly.
- Exactly, precisely.
- So as to be flat.
noun
- A flat tyre/flat tire.
- A rectangular wooden structure covered with masonite, lauan, or muslin, often produced in standard modules, that is used to build wall surfaces on stage. Flats can be painted and outfitted with doors and/or windows to depict a building or other part of a scene. It's a hard-surfaced alternative to a backcloth orbackdrop.
- An area of level ground (sometimes covered with water).
- A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught.
- An early kind of toy soldier having a flat design.
- The palm of the hand, with the adjacent part of the fingers.
- A large mail piece measuring at least 8 1/2 by 11 inches, such as catalogs, magazines, and unfolded paper enclosed in large envelopes.
- A flat (i.e. plane) mirror
- The flat side of a blade, as opposed to the sharp edge.
- A subset of n-dimensional space that is congruent to a Euclidean space of lower dimension.
- A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
- A platform on a wheel, upon which emblematic designs etc. are carried in processions.
- A railroad car without a roof, and whose body is a platform without sides; a platform car or flatcar.
- An apartment, usually on one level and usually consisting of more than one room.
- Level ground in general.
- A note played a semitone lower than a natural, denoted by the symbol ♭ placed after the letter representing the note (e.g., B♭) or in front of the note symbol (e.g. ♭♪).
- A type of ladies' shoe with a very low heel.
- Level horse-racing ground, as contrasted with courses incorporating jumps, or the racing done on such ground.
- A wide, shallow container or pallet.
- A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned.
- A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein; also, any horizontal portion of a vein not elsewhere horizontal.
- A cheater's die with the edges shaved to make certain rolls more likely.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies that spread their wings open when they land.
- A thin, broad brush used in oil and watercolour painting.
- A flat sheet for use on a bed.
- the area in the centre of a racecourse.
- A type of flat-soled running shoe without spikes.
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 lower; to put (something) down.
- To disparage; to put down.
- To drink or swallow, especially without stopping before the vessel containing the liquid is empty.
- To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down; to fell.
- Specifically, to cause (something in the air) to fall to the ground; to bring down (with a missile etc.).
- To render (the ball) dead, typically by touching the ground while in possession.
- To defeat; to overpower.
- To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
- To cover, ornament, line, or stuff with down.
adj
- Sad, unhappy, depressed, feeling low.
- Mechanically failed, collided, shot down, or otherwise suddenly unable to fly.
- Having a lower score than an opponent.
- Sick or ill.
- Negative about; hostile to.
- Comfortable with, accepting of.
- Wounded and unable to move normally, or killed.
- Facing downwards.
- Fallen or felled.
- At a lower level than before.
- Accepted, respected, or loyally participating in the (thug) community.
- Finished (of a task); defeated or dealt with (of an opponent or obstacle); elapsed (of time). Often coupled with to go (remaining).
- Out.
- Thoroughly practiced, learned or memorised; mastered. (Compare down pat.)
- Inoperable; out of order; out of service.
prep
- From one end to another of (in any direction); along.
- From the higher end to the lower of.
- At (a given place that is seen as removed from one's present location or other point of reference).
- From north to south of.
adv
- At or towards any place that is visualised as 'down' by virtue of local features or local convention, or arbitrarily, irrespective of direction or elevation change.
- So as to reduce size, weight or volume.
- From less to greater detail.
- So as to lessen quantity, level or intensity.
- Forward, straight ahead.
- In the direction leading away from the principal terminus, away from milepost zero.
- To the south (as south is at the bottom of typical maps).
- From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
- At a lower or further place or position along a set path.
- As a down payment.
- On paper (or in a durable record).
- Get down.
- Into a state of non-operation.
- To a subordinate or less prestigious position or rank.
- Towards the opponent's side (in ball-sports).
- Away from the city (regardless of direction).
- Used with verbs to indicate that the action of the verb was carried to some state of completion, permanence, or success rather than being of indefinite duration.
- From a remoter or higher antiquity.
- So as to secure or compress something to the floor, ground, or other (usually horizontal) surface.
noun
- The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, such as the thistle.
- That which is made of down, as a bed or pillow; that which affords ease and repose, like a bed of down.
- Down payment.
- A hill, especially a chalk hill; rolling grassland
- A tract of poor, sandy, undulating or hilly land near the sea, covered with fine turf which serves chiefly for the grazing of sheep.
- Soft, fluffy immature feathers which grow on young birds. Used as insulating material in duvets, sleeping bags and jackets.
- The soft hair of the face when beginning to appear.
- An act of swallowing an entire drink at once.
- A negative aspect; a downer, a downside.
- A clue whose solution runs vertically in the grid.
- A downstairs room of a two-story house.
- The lightest quark with a charge number of −¹⁄₃.
- A field, especially one used for horse racing.
- A single play, from the time the ball is snapped (the start) to the time the whistle is blown (the end) when the ball is down, or is downed.
verb
- To mince or otherwise to behave in an effeminate manner.
- To flourish with a swishing sound.
- To make a successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
- To make a rustling sound while moving.
- To cause a liquid to move around in a container, or in one's mouth.
noun
- An improvised alcoholic drink made by fermenting whatever ingredients are available.
- A sound of liquid flowing inside a container.
- A short rustling, hissing or whistling sound, often made by friction.
- An effeminate male homosexual.
- Effeminacy, effeminate or homosexual demeanor.
- A successful basketball shot that does not touch the rim or backboard.
- A hissing, sweeping movement through the air, as of an animal's tail.
- A twig or bundle of twigs, used for administering beatings; a switch
adj
intj
verb
- To taper off; to gradually quiet or diminish.
- To stiffen by coating or permeating with wax.
- To coat (hair) with an oily or waxy substance in order to hold it in place.
- To rub or polish with wax to create a slick, shiny and/or waterproof coating; to wax.
- To seal over with wax, in order to make airtight and watertight.
- To paste into place using wax.
- To generate a layer of wax that completely covers.
verb
- To make less serious or more cheerful.
- To become light or lighter in weight.
- To become brighter or clearer; to brighten.
- To illuminate with knowledge; to enlighten.
- To descend; to light.
- To emit or disclose in, or as if in, lightning; to flash out, like lightning.
- To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
- To become less serious or more cheerful.
- To make brighter or clearer; to illuminate.
- To make light or lighter in weight.
verb
- To let down or disappoint.
- To belch or flatulate
- To reduce the amount of available currency or credit and thus lower prices.
- To become deflated.
- To cause an object to decrease or become smaller in some parameter, e.g. to shrink
- To remove air or some other gas from within an elastic container, e.g. a balloon or tyre
- To compress (data) according to a particular algorithm.
verb
- make dull or blunt
- make dull in appearance
- become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness
- deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
- make numb or insensitive
- become less interesting or attractive
- make less lively or vigorous
adj
- lacking in liveliness or animation
- emitting or reflecting very little light
- not keenly felt
- not having a sharp edge or point
adj
- being or made softer or less loud or clear
- so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
- (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted
- slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
- (of business) not active or brisk
- blunted in responsiveness or sensibility
- not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft
- darkened with overcast
verb
- Synonym of knock out: to render unconscious.
- To cause a player on offense to be out.
- To cause someone to be out of sorts; to annoy, impose, inconvenience, or disturb.
- To dislocate (a joint).
- To knock out: to eliminate from a competition.
- To blind (eyes).
- To remove from office.
- To go out, to head out, especially (sailing) to set sail.
- To broadcast, to publish.
- To produce, to emit.
- To expel.
- To place outside, to remove, particularly
- To extinguish (fire).
- To consent to sex.
- To turn off (light).
noun
adj
verb
- To overshadow; to be better or more noticeable than.
- Of astronomical or atmospheric bodies, to cause an eclipse.
- To undergo eclipsis.
noun
- An alignment of astronomical objects whereby one object comes between the observer (or notional observer) and another object, thus obscuring the latter.
- Especially, an alignment whereby a planetary object (for example, the Moon) comes between the Sun and another planetary object (for example, the Earth), resulting in a shadow being cast by the middle planetary object onto the other planetary object.
- A seasonal state of plumage in some birds, notably ducks, adopted temporarily after the breeding season and characterised by a dull and scruffy appearance.
- Obscurity, decline, downfall.
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.
verb
- To calm down, to quiet.
- To cause to fall by drops.
- To expel spirit from by heat, or to evaporate and condense in a refrigeratory; to distill.
adj
- Not effervescing; not sparkling.
- Having the same stated quality continuously from a past time
- Not moving; calm.
- Comparatively quiet or silent; soft; gentle; low.
- Uttering no sound; silent.
adv
- Without motion.
- To an even greater degree. Used to modify comparative adjectives or adverbs.
- Even, yet.
- Up to a time, as in the preceding time.
- Nevertheless.
noun
- A large water boiler used to make tea and coffee.
- The area in a restaurant used to make tea and coffee, separate from the main kitchen.
- A device for distilling liquids.
- A period of calm or silence.
- A building where liquors are distilled; a distillery.
- A resident of the Falkland Islands.
- A photograph, as opposed to movie footage.
verb
- To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
- To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
- To check; to reprimand.
- To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
- To sob with convulsions.
- To stub out (a cigarette etc).
- To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.
adj
- Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
- Conspicuously short.
- Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
noun
noun
- Something (such as speech) regarded as droning on and often boring, or soothing but undemanding.
- Easy listening music, whether played live or recorded, especially if regarded as uninteresting.
verb
- To adapt or reduce (a piece of music, etc.) to the status of Muzak.
- To provide (premises, etc.) with Muzak.
name
verb
- To make less acute or perceptive.
- To make gloomy or sullen.
- To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
- To make obscure.
- To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
- To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
- To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
- To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
- Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
noun
- Crystal methamphetamine.
- A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.
- The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.
- A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.
- A telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings)
- Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy.
- A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.
- Anything unsubstantial.
- A dark spot on a lighter material or background.
- A group or swarm, especially suspended above the ground or flying.
- Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.
- An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.
verb
- To curtail; to cut short.
- To grip tightly.
- To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).
- To strike with the hand.
- to grab or take stealthily
- To cut off a signal level at a certain maximum value.
- To cut, especially with scissors or shears as opposed to a knife etc.
- To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.
- To discard (an occluded part of a model or scene) rather than waste resources on rendering it.
- To hit or strike, especially in passing.
- To perform an illegal tackle, throwing the body across the back of an opponent's leg or hitting him from the back below the waist while moving up from behind unless the opponent is a runner or the action is in close line play.
- To fasten with a clip.
- To cheat, swindle, or fleece.
noun
- A gaff or hook for landing the fish, as in salmon fishing.
- A frame containing a number of rounds of ammunition which is intended to be inserted into an internal magazine of a firearm to allow for rapid reloading.
- A newspaper clipping.
- A section of video taken from a film, broadcast, or other longer video
- A projecting flange on the upper edge of a horseshoe, turned up so as to embrace the lower part of the hoof; a toe clip or beak.
- An act of clipping, such as a haircut.
- The product of a single shearing of sheep.
- The condition of something, its state.
- A removable magazine of a firearm.
- A blow with the hand (often in the set phrase clip round the ear)
- Something which clips or grasps; a device for attaching one object to another.
- An unspecified, but normally understood as rapid, speed or pace.
- A season's crop of wool.
English words for 'To tone down; to make less emphatic or significant; to downplay.'
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