underplayverb [ T ]
uk/ˌʌn.dəˈpleɪ/us/ˌʌn.dɚˈpleɪ/to make something such as a dangerous situation seem less important or dangerous than it really is:
While not wanting to underplay the seriousness of the situation, I have to say that it is not as bad as people seem to think.
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Exaggerating & playing down
- alarmist
- blow sth out of proportion idiom
- drama queen
- dramatize
- exaggeration
- lard
- lay
- make a meal (out) of sth idiom
- make much of sth idiom
- make sth of sth
- meal
- over-egg the pudding idiom
- overboard
- overplay
- overstatement
- pad
- pudding
- stretch
- stretch the truth idiom
- understatement
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