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soft-pedal something

to play something down; to de-emphasize something. (Alludes to the soft pedal on the piano, which reduces the volume.) Try to soft-pedal the problems we have with the cooling system. I won't soft-pedal anything. Everyone must know the truth.

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As for the second movement, it made one hanker after the sort of introspective soft-pedal sound Daniel Barenboim has been using in the piano sonatas this fortnight. Belcea Quartet by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk How can we have the resolve to label the situation in Darfur for what it is -- genocide -- and then soft-pedal the first genocide of the 20th century? EDITORIAL CONFRONTING HISTORY CONGRESS SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE ARMENIAN ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) But this production soft-pedals the politics, concentrating on a shallow tour of the demimonde. The Threepenny Opera by Shewey Don / The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)			soap down sob sob oneself to sleep sob out sob story sob to sober sober as a judge sober up sock sock away sock in sock it to socked in sod Sod's Law soft soft answer turneth away wrath soft as a baby's bottom soft in the head soft money soft on soft sell soft soap soft touch soft-pedal soften soften stance soften the blow soften up soil soil diaper sold sold on sold out soldier soldier on solicit for solid solid as a rock some some elbow room some loose ends some people don't know when to quit some pumpkins some shut-eye somehow somehow or other something else something or other sometime			Soft-Input/Soft-Output Delayed Decision-Feedback Sequence Estimator Soft-Input/Soft-Output Parallel Decision-Feedback Decoder soft-iron ammeter soft-land soft-land soft-land soft-landed soft-landed soft-landed soft-landing soft-landing soft-landing soft-lands soft-lands soft-lands soft-line soft-liner Soft-loan Soft-loan Soft-Magnetic Materials soft-mud brick soft-mud process soft-news soft-nosed Soft-Output Multi-User Detector Soft-Output Probability Equalizer Soft-Output Truncated Modified Viterbi Algorithm Soft-Output Viterbi Algorithm soft-paste Soft-paste porcelain soft-pedal soft-pedaled soft-pedaled soft-pedaled soft-pedaling soft-pedaling soft-pedaling soft-pedalled soft-pedalled soft-pedalled soft-pedalling soft-pedalling soft-pedalling soft-pedals soft-pedals soft-pedals Soft-Permanent Virtual Circuit Soft-recoil system Soft-recoil system Soft-recoil system Soft-recoil system Soft-reset Soft-reset Soft-rock Soft-rock Soft-rush soft-sell soft-sell soft-sell soft-selling soft-selling

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