underplay
verb🔊/ˌʌndəˈpleɪ/
🔊/ˌʌndərˈpleɪ/
(especially British English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they underplay | 🔊/ˌʌndəˈpleɪ/ 🔊/ˌʌndərˈpleɪ/ |
| he / she / it underplays | 🔊/ˌʌndəˈpleɪz/ 🔊/ˌʌndərˈpleɪz/ |
| past simple underplayed | 🔊/ˌʌndəˈpleɪd/ 🔊/ˌʌndərˈpleɪd/ |
| past participle underplayed | 🔊/ˌʌndəˈpleɪd/ 🔊/ˌʌndərˈpleɪd/ |
| -ing form underplaying | 🔊/ˌʌndəˈpleɪɪŋ/ 🔊/ˌʌndərˈpleɪɪŋ/ |
- underplay something
to make something seem less important than it really is 低调处理；降低…的重要性 I think she's underplaying the significance of the report. 我认为她在轻描淡写该报告的重要性。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUnderplay is used with these nouns as the object:- role