SENSATIONALIZES Antonyms

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of

• the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

• interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

• a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

• an amount or percentage deducted

• bar from attention or consideration

• give a reduction in price on

• express a negative opinion of

• represent as less significant or important

• understate the importance or quality of

• make small or insignificant

• represent as less significant or important

• cause to seem less serious; play down

• be in contradiction with

• deny the truth of

• prove negative; show to be false

• make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

• make trivial or insignificant

• act (a role) with great restraint

• play a card lower than (a held high card)

• represent as less significant or important