soft-pedal

English - Turkish

Definition of soft-pedal in English Turkish dictionary: piyano pedalı; {f} ses yumuşatma pedalı; yumuşatmak; hafife almak; hafifletmek; pedal ile çalmak

English - English

Definition of soft-pedal in English English dictionary: Attempting to persuade without being obvious about it, by understating a position so the listener takes the good points as obvious; play down or obscure; "His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder; soft-pedal soft-pedals soft-pedalling soft-pedalled in AM, use soft-pedaling, soft-pedaled If you soft-pedal something, you deliberately reduce the amount of activity or pressure that you have been using to get something done or seen. He refused to soft-pedal an investigation into the scandal. to make something seem less important or less urgent than it really is; The leftmost foot-pedal on a piano; A pedal used to mute tone, as on a piano; pedal on a piano that reduces musical tones; {f} play down, minimize, reduce importance, make less important; use the soft pedal in playing piano to reduce the volume of music; a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound