Synonyms for tone down
tone down

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1. muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone downverb

   deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

   Synonyms:
   muffle, wash, stifle, mute, pall, numb, moderate, moisten, weaken, benumb, repress, break, soften, dull, smother, blunt, deaden, damp, dampen, tame, strangle

2. tone down, moderate, tameverb

   make less strong or intense; soften

   "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"

   Synonyms:
   lead, temper, muffle, mince, hold in, tame, cultivate, mute, domesticize, naturalise, control, chair, moderate, hold, reclaim, naturalize, check, domesticate, soften, domesticise, damp, dampen, chasten, curb, dull, subdue, contain

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1. • Alter
   • Soften

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1. tone down

   Synonyms:
   subdue, moderate, soften

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1. Anthony Fauci:

   No one is going to want to tone down things when you see what's going on in a place like New York City.

2. Hugo Chavez-Rey:

   This hurts our efforts. I think people need to tone down the rhetoric.

3. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Stock market mehyam is not trending today because agencies have not been paid money to create an environment of panic in public. Whenever stock market deep fall does not trend on twitter and youtubers keep silence or tone down on it, you can be sure that market will fall further

4. Jo Lines:

   We can't keep replacing insecticides every (few) years forever, in the long run we need an exit from this arms race. Either that, or we need to tone down the (insecticide) coverage.

5. Anthony Fauci:

   Obviously, no one is going to want to tone down things when you see things going on like in New York City.