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• disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
• minimise — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
• extinguish — Cause (a fire or light) to cease to burn or shine.
• minimize — to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree.
• mask — a form of aristocratic entertainment in England in the 16th and 17th centuries, originally consisting of pantomime and dancing but later including dialogue and song, presented in elaborate productions given by amateur and professional actors.
• deny — When you deny something, you state that it is not true.
• mumble — to speak in a low indistinct manner, almost to an unintelligible extent; mutter.
• ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
• play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• understate — to state or represent less strongly or strikingly than the facts would bear out; set forth in restrained, moderate, or weak terms: The casualty lists understate the extent of the disaster.
• lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
• depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
• forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
• darken — If something darkens or if a person or thing darkens it, it becomes darker.
• obscure — (of meaning) not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
• complicate — To complicate something means to make it more difficult to understand or deal with.
• involve — to include as a necessary circumstance, condition, or consequence; imply; entail: This job involves long hours and hard work.
• put out — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• cloud — A cloud is a mass of water vapour that floats in the sky. Clouds are usually white or grey in colour.
• conceal — If you conceal something, you cover it or hide it carefully.
• hide — Informal. to administer a beating to; thrash.
• cover — If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
• confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
• save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
• drench — to wet thoroughly; soak.
• disenchant — to rid of or free from enchantment, illusion, credulity, etc.; disillusion: The harshness of everyday reality disenchanted him of his idealistic hopes.
• turn off — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• quench — to slake, satisfy, or allay (thirst, desires, passion, etc.).
• mount — to go up; climb; ascend: to mount stairs.
• deemphasize — to place less emphasis upon; reduce in importance, size, scope, etc.: The university de-emphasized intercollegiate football.
• underrate — to rate or evaluate too low; underestimate.
• undervalue — to value below the real worth; put too low a value on.
• depart — When something or someone departs from a place, they leave it and start a journey to another place.
• leave — to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
• miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
• secrete — a steel skullcap of the 17th century, worn under a soft hat.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.