downplay
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downplay verb
- To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.“He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.”
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trivializeunderstatede-emphasizeunderplayunderestimatebelittledetractlessenminimizediminishreducemitigatesubtractdiluteminimisetrivialisedeemphasize
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