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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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Although increasingly stranded politically by the ebbing tide of socialism, he has refused to tone down his rabble-rousing rhetoric.
Nevertheless, the authors did succeed in redrafting it in an attempt to tone down the document's content.
To move to the next level, however, the chain needed to tone down its image a bit.
If you tone down your demonstrativeness, you will be able to receive what your quiet friend has to offer.
I wonder if the new editor of the Daily Telegraph has any Irish blood and will tone down the paper's anti-euro, anti-EU philippics.
I experimented with a light sifting of powder over everything to tone down the brightness of the colours.

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