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play down something

— phrasal verb with play us ​ /pleɪ/ verb

› to make something seem less important than or not as bad as it really is:

The doctor tried to play down the seriousness of my father’s illness, but we weren’t fooled.

(Definition of “play down something” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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