Soft-pedal

Definition: Soft-pedal

Soft-pedal

Verb

1. Play down or obscure; "His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder".

Usage Frequency: Soft-pedal

"Soft-pedal" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Soft-pedal" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Modern Translation: Soft-pedal

Language		Translations for "soft-pedal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		软脚蹬. (various references)

Hungarian		bal pedál zongorán. (various references)

Korean		연약하 페달. (various references)

Pig Latin		oft-pedalsay

Portuguese		atenuar (blunt, dilute, diminish, lessen, mitigate, modify, mutate, qualify, reduce, relax, relieve, shade, slake, soften, weaken). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Soft-pedal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-l-o-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: tadpoles.
	-2 letters: apostle, deposal, floated, folates, pedalos, pelotas, podesta, solated, stapled, tadpole.
	-3 letters: adepts, adopts, aldose, aslope, defats, delfts, deltas, depots, desalt, despot, fasted, festal, floats, flotas, foaled, foetal, folate, lapsed, lasted, loafed, lofted, oldest, osteal, padles, palest, palets, pasted, pastel, pedalo, pedals, pelota, petals, plated, plates, pleads, pleats, postal, posted, salted, sapote.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-l-o-p-s-t"
	+2 letters: splayfooted.
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