Synonym: damp, dampen, dull, moderate, muffle, mute, tame. Similar words: lie down, come down, tie down, die down, be down on, live down, come down on, pipe down. Meaning: v. 1. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping 2. make less strong or intense; soften.
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1. You should tone down the red colour in your painting.
2. His advisers told him to tone down his speech.
3. Blue can be used to tone down very sunny rooms.
4. You'd better tone down the more offensive remarks in your article.
5. I must ask you to tone down your remarks; they are giving offence to some of our visitors.
6. You needed to tone down the quotes at times to avert a libel writ.
7. The instinct of Eva's husband, Bee, is to tone down the services and comply with the law.
8. Leader comment, page 18 Critics tone down attacks on legal reform plans.
9. Tone down high colouring by using a green moisturiser or under-make-up base before applying foundation.
10. Fortunately parents can do a lot to tone down the aggressive behaviour.
11. How can we tone down these bright colours?
12. Please tone down your voice.
13. She tried to tone down his anger.
14. You must tone down your language ; stop swearing.
15. Indian officials have pleaded with news organizations to tone down reporting on border incursions.
16. Yee said he didn't want to tone down the violence because it would hurt the movie.
17. The newspaper asked the columnist to tone down his offensive remarks in the article.
18. She's never been asked to tone down or censor her descriptions of the photos.
19. Tone down and put some of that hard earned cash into a safe[sentencedict.com], long - term investment.
20. Tone down your kamikaze tendencies and take more prudent risks.
21. When Ken Hom wrote his first book for the BBC he was asked to tone down the spices and garlic in his recipes.
22. Jon Miller, a regular-season Orioles announcer working hard to tone down his emotions, became quite nearly comatose.
23. Compaq is seeking an injunction to force Dell to tone down the ads.sentencedict.com/tone down.html
24. Leaning her head back against the sofa, she closed her eyes, trying consciously to tone down her wild agitation.
25. That flourish took hours of animation and creative camera work to tone down.
26. 'A sport coat is a larger investment than a shirt, ' he notes, adding that it's easier to tone down a bright shirt with a dark jacket than vice versa.
27. Instead of striving after the unattainable, we should learn to round our ideas and tone down the angularity of our conduct.
More similar words: lie down, come down, tie down, die down, be down on, live down, come down on, pipe down, take down, face down, chase down, vote down, burned out, browned off, hand-me-down, scale down, drive down, close down, write down, upside down, buckle down, tumbledown, settle down, thistledown, put on the dog, intoned, make do with, knuckle down, tone-deaf, planned obsolescence.