Word Study
take ten |
take the air |
take the bull by the horns |
take the cake |
take the count |
take the edge off
| take the field
| take the fifth
| take the fifth amendment
| take the floor
| take the heat
take the edge off
THESAURUS
take the edge off
abate, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, attemper, attenuate, bank the fire, bate, blunt, calm, chasten, conciliate, constrain, control, cool, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, debilitate, defuse, devitalize, diminish, disedge, downplay, draw the teeth, dulcify, dull, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, gruel, keep within bounds, lay, lay low, lay the dust, lenify, lessen, lighten, mitigate, moderate, modulate, mollify, obtund, pacify, palliate, placate, play down, pour balm on, propitiate, rattle, reduce, reduce the temperature, repress, restrain, retund, sap, shake, shake up, slacken, slow down, smooth, smooth down, smooth over, smother, sober, sober down, soften, soften up, soothe, stifle, subdue, suppress, tame, temper, tone down, tranquilize, tune down, turn, unbrace, undermine, underplay, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken
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