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soft-pedal
 
Noun soft-pedal has 1 sense
  1. soft pedal - a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound
    --1 is a kind of pedal, treadle, foot pedal, foot lever
    --1 is a part of piano, pianoforte, forte-piano
Verb soft-pedal has 1 sense
  1. soft-pedal - play down or obscure; "His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder"
    --1 is one way to     background, play down, downplay
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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