Tone Down

Definition: Tone Down

Tone Down

Verb

1. Deaden (a sound or noise), esp. by wrapping.

2. Make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements".

3. Quieten or silence (a sound) or make (an image) less visible.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Military & Defense

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Synonyms: Tone Down

Moderation

Moderate, soften, mitigate, temper, accoy; attemper, contemper; mollify, lenify, dulcify, dull, take off the edge, blunt, obtund, sheathe, subdue, chasten; sober down, tone down, smooth down; weaken; lessen; (decrease); check palliate.

Crosswords: Tone Down

Expression using "tone down": to tone down. Additional references.

Albanian

zbutet (attenuate, be soothed, mellow, melt, relent), zbut (allay, amortise, amortize, appease, assuage, attenuate, break, calm, chasten, commute, daunt, disarm, ease, extenuate, malaxate, manage, melt, mince, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palatalize, palliate, propitiate, qualify, reclaim, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, tame, temper, tenderize), dobësohem (become weak, decay, dilute, ebb, fail, flag, grow feeble, grow thin, lag, languish, melt, reduce, relax, sink, slip, wane, weaken, wilt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لطف النغمة, ‏لطف (affableness, allay, alleviate, amenity, amiability, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, benignity, civility, courtesy, ease, extenuate, friendliness, geniality, gentleness, kindness, lighten, mildness, mitigate, moderate, modify, mollify, palliate, politeness, qualify, quell, relax, relieve, smooth, soften, softness, soothe, suavity, sweeten, temper, urbanity), ‏خفف اللهجة. (various references)

Czech

ztlumit (cushion, damp down, deaden, dim, dip, hush, soften, turn down), zmírnit (allay, alleviate, break, cushion, deaden, defuse, dilute, ease, extenuate, loosen, mitigate, palliate, relieve, remit, slacken, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, temper, understate). (various references)

Danish

nedtoning (decay). (various references)

Dutch

afzwakken. (various references)

Finnish

hiljentää (calm, hush, muffle, quiet, still, subdue). (various references)

French

parler � voix basse, baisser la voix, atténuer, atténuation, adoucir. (various references)

German

mässigen (abate, check, control oneself, curb, die down, moderate, modify, reduce, restrain oneself, temper), entschärfen (de-activate, defuse, neutralize, straighten out), abtönen (matching, shade, shaded, shading, shady), abschwächen (attenuate, deaden, dull, extenuate, lessen, mellow, muffle, soften, temper, to attenuate, to extenuate, understate, water down, weaken), abmildern (attenuate, water down). (various references)

Greek 

μετριάζω (abate, allay, damp, extenuate, mitigate, moderate, palliate, qualify, remit, season, temper). (various references)

Hebrew 

למתן (decelerate, moderate, restrain, slow down, temper), ל�"� מיך (depress, lower). (various references)

Hungarian

letompít (to blunt, to dim, to mute, to put a damper on, to smooth, to soften, unbrace), csökkent (abate, alleviate, attenuate, cut, cut back, decrease, diminish, look down, lower, mitigate, reduce, reduced, remit, step down, to abate, to abridge, to ax, to curtail, to cut back, to cut down, to deflate, to depress, to derogate, to ease, to ease down, to lessen, to lower, to pare down, to pull in, to put down, to reduce, to release, to send down, to slack, to slacken, to step down, understate). (various references)

Italian

attenuare (alleviate, attenuate, dilute, dull, ease, extenuate, mitigate, muffle, soften, subdue, understate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

デ杯 (bathroom, Davis Cup, lavatory, prerecorded announcement, restroom, talk, talk show, talkie, Taurus, tautology, toad, toast, toaster, tochka, toe, toe dance, toe kick, toeshows, together, Togo, toilet, toilet case, toilet paper, toilet powder, toilet soap, toiletry, Tokaji, Tokamak, Tokay, token, tokenism, toll, tollgate, tonal, tonality, tone, tooth, torch, torch lamp, torch relay, tornado, torus, total, Total Energy System, total fashion, total look, total product, totalizator system, tote bag, totem, totem pole, totemism, tournament, tournament pro, toxoplasma, true, try for point, tutti). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トーンダウン . (various references)

Manx

boggaghey (aspirate, dissolve, ease, elide, elision, macerate, maceration, moisten, push off, relax, relaxation, soften, steep). (various references)

Pig Latin

onetay ownday

Portuguese

suavizar (allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, ease, gentle, mitigate, palliate, salve, smooth, soften, soothe, subdue, unload), baixar (come down, down, draw down, droop, drop, ebb, fall, get down, go down, issue, let down, let up, lower, pull down, recede, reduce, sink, subside, take down, turn down). (various references)

Romanian

atenua (abate, alleviate, attenuate, dilute, diminish, dull, extenuate, gloze, mellow, reduce, soften, subdue, subjugate, water down). (various references)

Russian 

смягчаться (melt, relax, relent, soften), смягчать тон, смягчать (assuage, attenuate, commute, damp, extenuate, mellow, melt, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palatalize, palliate, relax, remit, soft pedal, soften, subdue). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukrotiti (tame), ublažiti (alleviate, attemper, become tempered, buff, cushion, dull, ease, lessen, mince, mitigate, moderate, mollify, palliate, redeem, soft pedal, soften, soothe, temper), sniziti ton. (various references)

Spanish

reducir para (retrench, whittle away, whittle down), reducir el volumen, disminuir para (shorten, slacken). (various references)

Swedish

tona stämma ner, tona ner (play down), moderera (moderate), dämpa (Bate, chasten, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, dim, dull, kill, moderate, muffle, mute, quell, quench, subdue, supress, temper). (various references)

Turkish

tonunu yumuşatmak, tonunu açmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

слабнути (attenuate, break up, droop, fail, faint, let up), пом'якшувати (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attenuate, dulcify, expurgate, gentle, milden, mitigate, modify, mollify, palatalize, rebate, remit, smooth, smooth over, soft pedal, soften, soothe). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: newton, tendon, wonned, wonted, wonton, wooden.

-3 letters: donne, endow, nonet, noted, odeon, owned, tenon, tondo, toned, tonne, towed, wooed.

-4 letters: dent, done, dote, down, enow, neon, newt, node, none, noon, note, nowt, onto, owed, tend, toed, tone, toon, town, wend, went, wont, wood.

-5 letters: den, dew, doe, don, dot, dow, end, eon, net, new.

+2 letters: downtowner.

+3 letters: downtowners, downtrodden.