ACCENTUATES Antonyms

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

• represent as less significant or important

• understate the importance or quality of

• the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

• body covering of a living animal

• prevent from being seen or discovered

• be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety

• cover as if with a shroud

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• make small or insignificant

• represent as less significant or important

• cause to seem less serious; play down

• a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature

• suppress in order to conceal or hide

• deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping

• not clearly expressed or understood

• marked by difficulty of style or expression

• difficult to find

• not famous or acclaimed

• not drawing attention

• remote and separate physically or socially

• make less visible or unclear

• make unclear, indistinct, or blurred

• make unintelligible or unclear

• reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

• make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

• make (images or sounds) soft or softer

• lessen in force or effect

• give in, as to influence or pressure

• protect from impact

• make less severe or harsh

• make soft or softer

• become soft or softer

• represent as less significant or important

• lessen the strength of

• become weaker

• destroy property or hinder normal operations

• reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of

• lessen in force or effect