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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. play down or obscure;
- Example: "His advisers soft-pedaled the president's blunder"



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

soft-pedal
    v 1: play down or obscure; "His advisers soft-pedaled the
         president's blunder"