Meaning of PLAY DOWN

Pronunciation:			pley dawn
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[v]  understate the importance or quality of; "he played down his royal ancestry"
	Synonyms:		background, downplay
	Antonyms:		foreground, highlight, play up, spotlight
	See Also:		accent, accentuate, emphasise, emphasize, punctuate, soft-pedal, stress, wave off
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, bedwarf, belittle, blunt, chasten, constrain, control, damp, dampen, deaden, de-emphasize, deprecate, depreciate, detract from, diminish, downplay, dull, dwarf, extenuate, keep within bounds, lay, lenify, lessen, lighten, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, minify, minimize, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mute, obtund, palliate, reduce, reduce the temperature, restrain, set at naught, set little by, slacken, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, soft-pedal, stifle, subdue, suppress, tame, temper, think little of, think nothing of, tone down, tune down, underplay, weaken