soft-pedal - Wordage.info - Free Thesaurus Tool for Word Discovery - Expanded Thesaurus, Reverse Dictionary Lookup

indistinct collapse: not clearly defined or easy to perceive or understand; "indistinct shapes in the gloom"; "an indistinct memory"; "only indistinct notions of what to do"

soften collapse: become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it"; make soft or softer; "This liquid will soften your laundry"; make (images or sounds) soft or softer

filial collapse: relating to or characteristic of or befitting an offspring; "filial respect"; designating the generation or the sequence of generations following the parental generation

painless collapse: requiring little hard work or exertion; "a painless solution to the problem"; not causing physical or psychological pain; "painless dentistry"

sole collapse: right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European; the underside of footwear or a golf club; the underside of the foot; lean flesh of any of several flatfish; put a new sole on; "sole the shoes"

forgiving collapse: inclined or able to forgive and show mercy; "a kindly forgiving nature"; "a forgiving embrace to the naughty child"

dampen collapse: lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall"; check; keep in check (a fire); make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"; reduce the amplitude (of oscillations or waves)

shove collapse: the act of shoving (giving a push to someone or something); "he gave the door a shove"; push roughly; "the people pushed and shoved to get in line"

pedal collapse: a lever that is operated with the foot; of or relating to the feet; "the word for a pedal extremity is `foot'"; operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument

subdued collapse: quieted and brought under control; "children were subdued and silent"

blandishment collapse: the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery; flattery intended to persuade

noiseless collapse: making no sound; "th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time"- Shakespeare

gullible collapse: easily tricked because of being too trusting; "gullible tourists taken in by the shell game"

conjugal collapse: of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband; "connubial bliss"; "conjugal visits"

whitewash collapse: a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects; wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces; a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score; exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data; cover with whitewash; "whitewash walls"; cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error; "Let's not whitewash the crimes of Stalin"; "She tried to gloss over her mistakes"

nonviolent collapse: achieved without bloodshed; "an unbloody transfer of power"; abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence

bunt collapse: (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat; fungus that destroys kernels of wheat by replacing them with greasy masses of smelly spores; similar to Tilletia caries; disease of wheat characterized by replacement of the grains with greasy masses of smelly smut spores; hit a ball in such a way so as to make it go a short distance

outspoken collapse: given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly"

mild collapse: moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme; "a mild winter storm"; "a mild fever"; "fortunately the pain was mild"; "a mild rebuke"; "mild criticism"

prawn collapse: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible; any of various edible decapod crustaceans; fish for prawns

shellfish collapse: meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)

Wordage.info