Anagrams of: GRADIENTERS

• cause to seem less serious; play down

• charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

• an infantryman equipped with grenades

• deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail

• An intermediate grade.

• To pass or change from one state to another by steps or stages.

• To replace the traction-providing surface of a vehicle that employs tires, tracks or treads.

• To renew the tread of a tyre, providing a cheap, and possibly dangerous, product.

• To tread again, to walk along again, to follow a path again.

• under restraint

• cool and formal in manner

• marked by avoidance of extravagance or extremes

• not showy or obtrusive

• prudent

• caused to be unloved

• appointed but not yet installed in office

• assign a name or title to

• give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person)

• indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively

• decree or designate beforehand

• design or destine