water down
verb
watered down; watering down; waters down
: to reduce or temper the force or effectiveness of
watered down the plan
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Examples of water down in a Sentence
watered down the cocktails while jacking up their prices
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Musk’s role in reshaping Twitter into X — turning it from the world’s foremost social media platform for real-time news into a hotbed of conspiracy theories and misinformation, in part by axing its trust and safety teams and watering down its content policies, has been well-documented.
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Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
Her extreme money-saving tactics included watering down juice for herself and the kids, counting out the pieces of cereal the kids could eat and rationing toilet paper usage for the family.
—Athena Sobhan, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
It’s just spread out over too many episodes, its tension watered down by the length.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024
That means not watering down criminal laws like some have proposed.
—Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
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Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2024
Her extreme money-saving tactics included watering down juice for herself and the kids, counting out the pieces of cereal the kids could eat and rationing toilet paper usage for the family.
—Athena Sobhan, People.com, 15 Oct. 2024
It’s just spread out over too many episodes, its tension watered down by the length.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Oct. 2024
That means not watering down criminal laws like some have proposed.
—Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Water down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20down. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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