downplay
verb/ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ/
/ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they downplay | /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ/ /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪ/ |
| he / she / it downplays | /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪz/ /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪz/ |
| past simple downplayed | /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪd/ /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪd/ |
| past participle downplayed | /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪd/ /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪd/ |
| -ing form downplaying | /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪɪŋ/ /ˌdaʊnˈpleɪɪŋ/ |
- downplay something to try to make something seem less important than it really is synonym play down
- The coach is downplaying the team's poor performance.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryDownplay is used with these nouns as the object:- extent
- importance
- incident
- …
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