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What is another word for deemphasizing?

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Verb
Present participle for to represent or estimate at less than the true value or importance
minimisingUK
minimizingUS
diminishing
downplaying
lessening
reducing
underrating
undervaluing
understating
moderating
softening
trivialisingUK
trivializingUS
underestimating
devaluing
whitewashing
minifying
underplaying
misprizing
weakening
mitigating
deprecating
discounting
extenuating
cheapening
qualifying
tempering
minimalizing
de-emphasizing
playing down
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
glossing over
making light of
shrugging off
selling short
brushing aside
toning down
talking down
making little of
detracting from
holding cheap
pooh-poohing
making light
brushing off
taking lightly
underemphasizing
downgrading
undertoning
setting little store by
making nothing of
setting no store by
holding back
attaching little importance to
giving a lower profile
giving little weight to
dumbing down
thinking nothing of
belittling
dismissing
depreciating
palliating
disparaging
doing an injustice to
rating too low
derogating
rationalizingUS
restraining
sugarcoating
subduing
treating lightly
rationalisingUK
laughing off
modulating
scoffing at
discrediting
denigrating
lowering
defaming
vilipending
restricting
decreasing
relaxing
disregarding
euphemizing
thinking too little of
controlling
thinking little of
underrepresenting
underselling
underpricing
justifying
mincing
explaining away
mincing words
curbing
prettifying
treating as unimportant
softening up
brushing something under the carpet
putting down
disesteeming
covering up
candy-coating
deflating
setting too little store by
failing to appreciate
slighting
joking about
making a joke of
not doing justice
decrying
misjudging
looking down on
taking for granted
underweening
knocking
undermining
varnishing
glossing
belying
glozing over
smoothing over
blue-penciling
blue-pencilling
putting on the soft pedal
going easy
shushing
devaluating
limiting
subtracting from
cutting rate
withdrawing
blistering
taking away from
backbiting
laughing at
writing off
detracting
dampening
chilling out
diluting
remitting
demeaning
abating
revising
dulling
easing
blunting
modifying
slackening
deriding
demoting
degrading
scorning
criticizingUS
dispraising
criticisingUK
dumping on
trashing
marginalisingUK
crying down
marginalizingUS
maligning
slurring
smearing
vilifying
taking down a peg
breaking
constraining
pacifying
cooling
taming
checking
repressing
mellowing
cooling out
holding in
keeping under control
deadening
calming
meeting halfway
damping
quieting
temperating
soothing
keeping in check
regulating
allaying
stilling
“The first approach, developed by Oliver MacDonagh, presented an expansive and centralized administrative state while deemphasizing the influence of Benthamite utilitarianism.”
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de-emphasizing
deems
deems as
deems important
deems it worthy of oneself
deems likely
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deemphasizes
de-emphasized
deemphasized
de-emphasize
deemphasize
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