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TONES DOWN (5,4)

tone down 

tone down, moderate, tame - v 
make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements" 

wordplays

synonyms 

moderate, tame

in a sentence 

So I kind of have to keep things toned down and stay out of sight, because he isn’t supposed to have anybody over here.

Didn’t no white folk dare talk to him with that kind of tone down in South Carol-liney, and this colored man had the nerve?

She had edited it herself and toned down his rhetoric, so that his argument—that only a unitary government could remove the divisions of regionalism—was clearer.

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