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What does tone down mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word tone down? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To relax; to make quieter or less obtrusive; to make milder.
  2. To moderate or relax; to diminish or weaken the striking characteristics of; to soften.
  3. To make a television program, piece of writing, etc. less offensive and so more suitable for a family audience.
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He was forced to strategically excise parts in the opening shower sequence, replace some lascivious dialogue, and tone down some of the overt gore.
Leave the ability to act like a hedge fund but tone down the use of high-risk investment techniques.
Yet, they have proved incapable of any serious effort to tone down their policies or even make them more palatable to the electorate.
When a church leader asked him to tone down his use of racy language in his columns, his answer was swift.
If lipstick looks too shiny on your eyelids, dust your lids with loose powder foundation to tone down the color.
I experimented with a light sifting of powder over everything to tone down the brightness of the colours.

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