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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Chu says that since Trump's first term, red states have focused on school choice policies, and blue states have watered down accountability and testing requirements.
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Russell Contreras, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
There is no telling how different the American landscape would look, both politically and physically had FDR agreed to water down his progressive policies in favor of Hoover’s economic plan.
—Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Aug. 2024
The results suggested that outside of the planet’s frozen polar regions, the martian crust is essentially devoid of water down to about 5 kilometers deep.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 12 Aug. 2024
Movement leaders look the other way as the party waters down decades of support for the right to life of unborn children.
—Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 12 July 2024
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Russell Contreras, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
There is no telling how different the American landscape would look, both politically and physically had FDR agreed to water down his progressive policies in favor of Hoover’s economic plan.
—Emily Hallas, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 18 Aug. 2024
The results suggested that outside of the planet’s frozen polar regions, the martian crust is essentially devoid of water down to about 5 kilometers deep.
—Christie Wilcox, science.org, 12 Aug. 2024
Movement leaders look the other way as the party waters down decades of support for the right to life of unborn children.
—Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 12 July 2024
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“Water down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20down. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.
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