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soft pedal
a pedal used to soften or dampen the tone of a piano or any of certain other musical instruments
soft-pedal definition
soft·-pedal (sôft′ped′'l, säft′-)
transitive verb soft-pedaled -·aled or soft-pedalled -·alled, soft-pedaling -·aling or soft-pedalling -·alling
- to soften or dampen the tone of (a musical instrument) by use of a special pedal
- Informal to make less emphatic, less obtrusive, less conspicuous, etc.; tone down; play down
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