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Noun soft pedal has 1 sense

• soft pedal(n = noun.artifact) Array - a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound; Array
is a kind of foot lever, foot pedal, pedal, treadle
is a part of forte-piano, piano, pianoforte

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soft pedal

allow for, baffle, choke, choke off, color, cushion, damp, dampen, deaden, deafen, diminish, dull, dumbfound, ease, extenuate, gag, gloss over, hush, hush-hush, ignore, lessen, make allowance for, mince, mitigate, muffle, mute, muzzle, palliate, play down, put to silence, quiet, quieten, shush, shut down on, silence, slur over, soften, squash, squelch, stifle, still, stop, strike dumb, subdue, throttle, tone down, varnish, whitewash

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