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soft pedal
Overview of noun soft-pedal
The noun soft pedal has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. soft pedal -- (a pedal on a piano that moves the action closer to the strings and so soften the sound)
Overview of verb soft-pedal
The verb soft-pedal has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. soft-pedal -- (play down or obscure; "His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun soft-pedal
1 sense of soft pedal
Sense 1
soft pedal
=> pedal, treadle, foot pedal, foot lever
=> lever
=> bar
=> implement
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun soft-pedal
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun soft-pedal
1 sense of soft pedal
Sense 1
soft pedal
=> pedal, treadle, foot pedal, foot lever
Antonyms of noun soft-pedal
Member Holonyms of noun soft-pedal
Substance Holonyms of noun soft-pedal
Part Holonyms of noun soft-pedal
1 sense of soft pedal
Sense 1
soft pedal
PART OF: piano, pianoforte, forte-piano
Member Meronyms of noun soft-pedal
Substance Meronyms of noun soft-pedal
Part Meronyms of noun soft-pedal
Meronyms of noun soft-pedal
Holonyms of noun soft-pedal
1 sense of soft pedal
Sense 1
soft pedal
PART OF: piano, pianoforte, forte-piano
Attributes of noun soft-pedal
Derived Forms of noun soft-pedal
Domain of noun soft-pedal
Domain Terms of noun soft-pedal
Familiarity of noun soft-pedal
soft pedal used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun soft-pedal
1 sense of soft pedal
Sense 1
soft pedal
> pedal, treadle, foot pedal, foot lever
=> accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun
=> brake pedal
=> clutch, clutch pedal
=> soft pedal
=> sustaining pedal, loud pedal
Meronyms of noun soft-pedal
1 sense of soft pedal
Sense 1
soft pedal
=> pedal, treadle, foot pedal, foot lever
=> lever
HAS PART: fulcrum
=> bar
=> implement
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun soft-pedal
1 sense of soft pedal
Sense 1
soft pedal
PART OF: piano, pianoforte, forte-piano
Antonyms of verb soft-pedal
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb soft-pedal
1 sense of soft-pedal
Sense 1
soft-pedal
=> background, play down, downplay
=> stress, emphasize, emphasise, punctuate, accent, accentuate
=> express, show, evince
=> convey, impart
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb soft-pedal
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb soft-pedal
1 sense of soft-pedal
Sense 1
soft-pedal
=> background, play down, downplay
'Cause To' of verb soft-pedal
Derived Forms of verb soft-pedal
Domain of verb soft-pedal
Domain Terms of verb soft-pedal
Familiarity of verb soft-pedal
soft-pedal used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb soft-pedal
1 sense of soft-pedal
Sense 1
soft-pedal
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb soft-pedal
1 sense of soft-pedal
Sense 1
soft-pedal
> background, play down, downplay
=> wave off
=> soft-pedal
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb soft-pedal
Sense 1
soft-pedal
=> background, play down, downplay
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Grep of verb soft-pedal
soft-pedal
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