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underplay
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb underplay has 2 senses
- underplay(v = verb.creation) underact - act (a role) with great restraint; Array is one way to act, play, playact, roleplay
- underplay(v = verb.competition) Array - play a card lower than (a held high card); Array is one way to play
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CIDE DICTIONARY
underplay, v. i.
- To play in a subordinate, or in an inferior manner; to underact a part. [1913 Webster]
- To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage. [1913 Webster]
underplay, n.
The act of underplaying. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
underplay, v.
1 tr. play down the importance of.
2 intr. & tr. Theatr. a perform with deliberate restraint. b underact.
1 tr. play down the importance of.
2 intr. & tr. Theatr. a perform with deliberate restraint. b underact.
THESAURUS
underplay
abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, attemper, bank the fire, bedwarf, belittle, blunt, chasten, constrain, control, damp, dampen, de-emphasize, deaden, deprecate, depreciate, detract from, diminish, downplay, dull, dwarf, extenuate, keep within bounds, lay, lenify, lessen, lighten, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, minify, minimize, mitigate, moderate, modulate, obtund, palliate, play down, reduce, reduce the temperature, restrain, set at naught, set little by, slacken, slow down, smother, sober, sober down, soften, stifle, subdue, suppress, tame, temper, think little of, think nothing of, tone down, tune down, weaken
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