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Definition of watered-down in English: watered-downadjective 1Diluted with water. Example sentencesExamples - To the fur traders they were commodities who could be purchased and indentured to company stores through watered-down alcohol and cheaply made goods.
- In the '80s, several low-cal wines flopped because they tasted watered-down.
- The usual bottles of watered-down Jameson will be presented.
- Whatever happened to walking in to your local arcade, sucking on a watered-down fountain beverage from the food court and challenging other local hoodlums to take down your high score?
- You'd be served fast-food burgers, cold fries and a watered-down soft drink.
- The product was an eau de toilette - a perfume that has been watered-down so that it can be sprayed - aimed at 15- to 25-year-old girls.
- They set out a plate of cold, stringy beef and a bowl of runny, watered-down soup, then left.
- It is more than likely a watered-down version of the original - containing as much as 40% sugar water.
- No watered-down margaritas at this party.
- 1.1 Altered so as to be weaker in force, content, or value.
a watered-down version of the book the watered-down proposal has not been welcomed Example sentencesExamples - But some believe new management will translate into a watered-down editorial focus.
- It's more watered-down than our point of view, but they're reaching a lot more people.
- This is no watered-down ghost story thrown into theaters for teenage consumption.
- He was turning music I grew up on into a watered-down fad, a moneymaking thing.
- The story - based on an Isak Dinesen tale but emerging as very watered-down Chekhov - concerns a noblewoman, Vanessa, who awaits the lover she hasn't seen for twenty years.
- Having seen the final cut, it's mind-boggling to believe that such a watered-down version was ever considered.
- The upshot was that, although approved, the reforms were too watered-down to have any serious effect on the deficit.
- What's onscreen is a watered-down version of Solaris's deliciously smart sci-fi.
- Similarly, three years later, the government managed to win parliamentary approval for only a watered-down version of the measure abolishing religious orders.
- Throwing the disc into my player I didn't quite know what to expect, perhaps a watered-down Herbie Goes Bananas knock-off, only animated.
Definition of watered-down in US English: watered-downadjectiveˌwɔdərdˈdaʊnˌwôdərdˈdoun 1Diluted with water. Example sentencesExamples - They set out a plate of cold, stringy beef and a bowl of runny, watered-down soup, then left.
- Whatever happened to walking in to your local arcade, sucking on a watered-down fountain beverage from the food court and challenging other local hoodlums to take down your high score?
- It is more than likely a watered-down version of the original - containing as much as 40% sugar water.
- No watered-down margaritas at this party.
- The product was an eau de toilette - a perfume that has been watered-down so that it can be sprayed - aimed at 15- to 25-year-old girls.
- The usual bottles of watered-down Jameson will be presented.
- To the fur traders they were commodities who could be purchased and indentured to company stores through watered-down alcohol and cheaply made goods.
- In the '80s, several low-cal wines flopped because they tasted watered-down.
- You'd be served fast-food burgers, cold fries and a watered-down soft drink.
- 1.1 Altered so as to be weaker in force, content, or value.
a watered-down version of the book the watered-down proposal has not been welcomed Example sentencesExamples - Similarly, three years later, the government managed to win parliamentary approval for only a watered-down version of the measure abolishing religious orders.
- It's more watered-down than our point of view, but they're reaching a lot more people.
- Having seen the final cut, it's mind-boggling to believe that such a watered-down version was ever considered.
- This is no watered-down ghost story thrown into theaters for teenage consumption.
- But some believe new management will translate into a watered-down editorial focus.
- Throwing the disc into my player I didn't quite know what to expect, perhaps a watered-down Herbie Goes Bananas knock-off, only animated.
- The story - based on an Isak Dinesen tale but emerging as very watered-down Chekhov - concerns a noblewoman, Vanessa, who awaits the lover she hasn't seen for twenty years.
- What's onscreen is a watered-down version of Solaris's deliciously smart sci-fi.
- The upshot was that, although approved, the reforms were too watered-down to have any serious effect on the deficit.
- He was turning music I grew up on into a watered-down fad, a moneymaking thing.
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