Usually means: Minimize significance or importance intentionally.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word downplay:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. downplay: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. downplay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. downplay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. downplay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. downplay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Downplay, downplay: Wordnik
  7. downplay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. downplay: Wiktionary
  9. downplay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. downplay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. downplay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. downplay: Dictionary.com
  13. downplay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Downplay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. downplay: Rhymezone
  16. downplay: Free Dictionary
  17. downplay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. downplay: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. downplay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downplay: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. downplay: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.

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