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Water down

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To dilute with water; to add water to.

    "You need to water down the lemonade a bit more to make it less sweet, dear."

  2. 2
    thin by adding water to wordnet
  3. 3
    To make weaker, less effective. idiomatic

    ""Scaling back its ambition further, at this stage, will just mean the economic and social benefit of HS2 for communities across the UK is further watered down. Our national infrastructure should not become a political football.""

  4. 4
    make less strong or intense wordnet
  5. 5
    To simplify or oversimplify; to make easier; to make less difficult. idiomatic

    "Near-synonym: dumb down"

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  1. 6
    To make less restrictive; to make more lenient. idiomatic

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