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Present participle for to avoid speaking on a given topic
Present participle for to become covered in a glossy sheen
Present participle for to deal with something hurriedly, treat in a perfunctory manner
Present participle for to (attempt to) lessen or mitigate the seriousness of
Present participle for to regard or represent as being of little worth
Present participle for to keep quiet about
Present participle for to give or add color to, especially with paint
Present participle for to (attempt to) hide or disguise, especially an offense
Present participle for to fail to care for or pay attention to
Present participle for to misrepresent by distortion or exaggeration
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Present participle for to avoid speaking on a given topic
dismissing
evading
dodging
passing over
skimming over
overlooking
ignoring
disregarding
discounting
shrugging off
overpassing
brushing aside
brushing off
whitewashing
blinking at
winking at
glozing over
papering over
forgetting
taking no notice of
turning a blind eye to
paying no attention to
letting pass
paying no heed to
taking no account of
condoning
excusing
letting go
neglecting
omitting
forgiving
pardoning
remitting
turning a deaf ear to
making light of
bypassing
closing your eyes to
missing
slurring over
minimizing
US
deliberately ignoring
minimising
UK
rejecting
skipping
tuning out
writing off
unheeding
unminding
setting aside
shutting eyes to
looking the other way
passing
downplaying
conniving
palliating
soft-pedalling
turning a blind eye
soft-pedaling
de-emphasizing
letting something ride
playing down
failing to notice
conniving at
paying no mind
slighting
looking past
skipping over
leaving out
dispelling
avoiding
discarding
paying no mind to
rationalising
UK
understating
taking no notice
justifying
making allowances for
failing to spot
failing to see
leaving unnoticed
skirting around
leaving
brushing something under the carpet
misheeding
skating over
mislooking
rationalizing
US
sugarcoating
failing to deal with
extenuating
brushing away
letting someone off with
letting off easy
wiping slate clean
explaining away
pooh-poohing
passing by
laying aside
sparing
not listening
skirting
living with
failing to observe
leaving be
dissimulating
winking
ducking
treating lightly
shaking off
sweeping under the rug
varnishing over
sweeping under the carpet
giving no credence to
doubting
taking with a pinch of salt
underselling
disbelieving
deodorizing
US
pleading ignorance
indulging
deodorising
UK
letting off
granting amnesty
granting a pardon to
suspending charges
giving absolution
burying the hatchet
tolerating
discharging
dealing rapidly with
treating as unimportant
mitigating
lessening
candy-coating
prettifying
toning down
qualifying
covering up
softening up
leaving out of account
turning a deaf ear
laughing off
sending to Coventry
contemning
cold-shouldering
blanking
slipping up on
leaving out of consideration
paying no attention
letting fall between the cracks
swimming with the tide
turning blind eye to
grinning and bear it
playing past
sinking
letting bygones be bygones
taking
putting up with
bearing with
burying
stomaching
standing for
going along with
letting something slide
rolling with punches
spurning
repudiating
failing to mention
belying
smoothing over
varnishing
glossing
banishing
putting away
kissing off
relegating
laughing away
dropping
putting out of your mind
denying
flouting
shelving
scouting
abandoning
despising
thinking no more of
having done with
pushing aside
turning back on
dispensing with
excluding
turning deaf ear
turning blind eye
looking through
not taking into account
turning your back on
burying one's head in sand
letting it go
failing
avoiding considering
overleaping
not dwelling on
more ❯
“This is something that those who wish to obfuscate the origins of our current conflicts with extremists tend to
gloss over
or ignore.”
Verb
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Present participle for to become covered in a glossy sheen
glazing
glazing over
filming over
misting over
icing over
becoming glassy
Verb
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Present participle for to deal with something hurriedly, treat in a perfunctory manner
slurring over
skating over
skipping
skimming
skimming through
making only brief mention of
skipping through
mentioning briefly
skipping over
passing over quickly
Verb
▲
Present participle for to (attempt to) lessen or mitigate the seriousness of
explaining away
excusing
palliating
whitewashing
extenuating
deodorising
UK
deodorizing
US
glozing over
vindicating
exonerating
justifying
defending
explaining
making allowances for
making excuses for
making allowances
coming up with an explanation for
giving an explanation for
making a case for
accounting for
rationalizing
US
rationalising
UK
attributing
resolving
making acceptable
clearing up
giving a reason for
providing a rationale for
glozing
exculpating
condoning
pettifogging
paralogizing
reconciling
making allowance
reasoning out
giving alibi
giving good reason for
giving an excuse for
exonerating oneself
mitigating
clearing the air about
giving a justification for
absolving yourself
warranting
shedding light on
answering to
throwing light upon
vindicating oneself
giving a rationale for
giving an alibi for
legitimising
UK
throwing light on
exculpating oneself
legitimizing
US
supporting
giving an apologia for
corroborating
acquiting oneself
illuminating
elucidating
clarifying
coming up with an explanation
showing grounds for
giving reasons for
answering for
giving an explanation
Verb
▲
Present participle for to regard or represent as being of little worth
underrating
minimising
UK
minimizing
US
undervaluing
diminishing
belittling
trivialising
UK
trivializing
US
underestimating
depreciating
understating
disparaging
discounting
minifying
misprizing
downgrading
lessening
reducing
underemphasizing
underpricing
playing down
de-emphasizing
selling short
brushing aside
setting little store by
rating too low
doing an injustice to
failing to appreciate
setting too little store by
making light of
downplaying
shrugging off
soft-pedalling
soft-pedaling
underplaying
devaluing
making little of
setting no store by
holding cheap
deprecating
toning down
talking down
softening
deemphasizing
detracting from
making nothing of
vilipending
cheapening
weakening
moderating
disesteeming
mitigating
pooh-poohing
thinking too little of
holding back
deflating
slighting
disregarding
misjudging
underweening
whitewashing
putting down
decrying
derogating
extenuating
discrediting
denigrating
qualifying
tempering
minimalizing
not doing justice
looking down on
defaming
knocking
taking for granted
lowering
undermining
devaluating
decreasing
blistering
withdrawing
backbiting
making light
taking lightly
brushing off
detracting
writing off
palliating
euphemizing
laughing at
subduing
cutting rate
taking away from
shushing
subtracting from
blue-penciling
blue-pencilling
putting on the soft pedal
going easy
mincing words
dissing
dismissing
scorning
deriding
scoffing at
running down
trashing
panning
slating
bad-mouthing
treating lightly
sneering at
crying down
slamming
degrading
look down one's nose at
vilifying
rubbishing
demeaning
maligning
reviling
aspersing
slurring
doing a hatchet job on
criticizing
US
mocking
trash-talking
slagging off
pulling apart
abusing
kissing off
having a go at
disdaining
marginalizing
US
criticising
UK
ridiculing
marginalising
UK
pouring scorn on
doing down
taking to pieces
condemning
laughing off
casting aspersions on
traducing
taking down
picking holes in
hitting out at
dumping on
taking down a peg
disgracing
dragging through the mud
smearing
dispraising
tearing down
marking down
censuring
cutting down to size
humbling
calumniating
debasing
roasting
abasing
bashing
sinking
rapping
contemning
spurning
snubbing
pulling to pieces
writing down
holding in contempt
attacking
demoting
slandering
denouncing
depressing
blasting
despising
humiliating
shaming
hating
scorching
flaming
vituperating
attenuating
disrespecting
declassing
bumping
sniffing at
bringing down
breaking
tearing into
speaking badly of
speaking ill of
looking down upon
thinking little of
treating as unimportant
disvaluing
underappreciating
libeling
US
impugning
libelling
UK
disapproving
sneering
subordinating
insulting
poormouthing
squashing
knocking off
ripping
squelching
putting hooks in
giving comeuppance
putting away
slinging mud at
knocking off high horse
chastening
excoriating
dishonoring
US
reprehending
smirching
lambasting
devalorizing
blaming
reprobating
fouling
execrating
deploring
mortifying
dishonouring
UK
shooting down
pillorying
anathematizing
demeriting
benching
thumbing nose at
walking over
feeling contempt for
jeering at
sneezing at
treating with contempt
abhorring
cutting to the quick
taking a swipe at
shooting full of holes
animadverting
hitting
railing
complaining
lowering in rank
prostituting
betraying
doing a number on
lowering in status
inveighing against
beating down
dragging down
selling out
railing against
fulminating against
rejecting
disapproving of
cavilling at
coming down on
tearing to shreds
sniping at
taking swipe at
carping at
relegating
regarding with contempt
showing contempt for
abominating
scouting
turning your nose up at
reverting
setting back
casting down
reducing to the ranks
bringing low
busting
kicking downstairs
crushing
disrating
lowering the status of
underjudging
faulting
discountenancing
finding fault with
more ❯
Verb
▲
Present participle for to keep quiet about
concealing
suppressing
dissembling
repressing
hiding
censoring
disguising
bottling up
hushing up
keeping secret
covering up
holding back
keeping quiet about
keeping a lid on
keeping quiet
keeping the lid on
keeping under wraps
sweeping under the carpet
sweeping under the rug
keeping dark
keeping in the dark
keeping under your hat
sitting on
drawing a veil over
whitewashing
papering over
masking
withholding
stifling
veiling
belying
cloaking
harbouring
UK
harboring
US
reserving
burying
blotting out
not giving away
keeping unknown
keeping back
not telling
keeping cover
hiding from view
keeping mum about
swallowing
smothering
sinking
choking back
protecting
Verb
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Present participle for to give or add color to, especially with paint
painting
staining
coloring
US
tinging
tingeing
colouring
UK
tinting
tincturing
pigmenting
shading
bepainting
washing
spraying
coating
dyeing
dying
glossing
covering
distempering
airbrushing
whitewashing
brushing
undercoating
touching up
slapping on
applying paint to
putting on coats
Verb
▲
Present participle for to (attempt to) hide or disguise, especially an offense
palliating
hiding
concealing
covering
cloaking
disguising
camouflaging
dissembling
masking
veiling
screening
veneering
varnishing
covering up
papering over
varnishing over
Verb
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Present participle for to fail to care for or pay attention to
neglecting
overlooking
disregarding
ignoring
discounting
abandoning
bypassing
overpassing
shirking
skipping
dismissing
forsaking
avoiding
contemning
deferring
deserting
discarding
omitting
pretermitting
depreciating
eliding
evading
missing
overleaping
postponing
procrastinating
rejecting
scanting
underestimating
leaving something undone
passing over
letting pass
paying no attention to
paying no heed to
paying no mind
setting aside
skimping on
brushing aside
brushing off
failing to look after
leaving alone
letting go
letting something slide
losing sight of
not caring for
procrastinating over
shrugging off
taking no notice of
thinking little of
not caring
passing up
paying little attention to
slurring over
tuning out
turning a deaf ear to
turning your back on
failing to care for
failing to provide for
living with
not troubling oneself
laughing off
keeping at arm's length
making light of
throwing to the winds
trifling with
keeping your distance
looking the other way
having nothing to do with
turning back on
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Present participle for to misrepresent by distortion or exaggeration
colouring
UK
coloring
US
embroidering
exaggerating
disguising
dramatising
UK
dramatizing
US
embellishing
enhancing
falsifying
misrepresenting
overdoing
overdrawing
overstating
varnishing
distorting
fudging
garbling
hyperbolizing
manipulating
misreporting
perverting
airbrushing
belying
bending
faking
magnifying
massaging
misrelating
misstating
poisoning
straining
cooking
misinterpreting
padding
romanticising
UK
romanticizing
US
quoting out of context
elaborating on
giving a false account of
putting a spin on
taking out of context
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