WordNet
adj. made less strong or severe; "a pale gleam of diluted sunlight" [syn: diluted, toned down(p)]
Usage examples of "toned down".
The AS's volume was toned down enough to keep it from echoing off the walls and upsetting the normals.
The elections are still going ahead, and the Brotherhood and the Society of Friends are still struggling to control the dwa market, but in the face of the recent calamity most of the outright hostility is either toned down or suspended altogether.
He was, however, not so pleased with the increasing liberties Howard was taking with his dialogue and the explicitness of certain situations, and in several instances severely toned down some of the Cimmerian’.
It has toned down the rampant masculinity which in the past has debased industry into warfare.
Elrond is an important character, though his reverence, high powers, and lineage are toned down and not revealed in full.
Nick scrambled down off the ladder, and saw to it that the makeup was toned down.