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 淡化；对…轻描淡写 Oxford Collocations DictionaryDownplay is used with these nouns as the object:- extent
- importance
- incident
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