All dramatize antonyms

verb dramatize

• play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
• veto — the power or right vested in one branch of a government to cancel or postpone the decisions, enactments, etc., of another branch, especially the right of a president, governor, or other chief executive to reject bills passed by the legislature.
• prevent — to keep from occurring; avert; hinder: He intervened to prevent bloodshed.
• refrain — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• abandon — If you abandon a place, thing, or person, you leave the place, thing, or person permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
• fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.