underplay
verb (especially British English)Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they underplay | |
he / she / it underplays | |
past simple underplayed | |
past participle underplayed | |
-ing form underplaying |
- underplay something
to make something seem less important than it really is synonym downplay, play down低调处理;降低…的重要性 I think she's underplaying the significance of the report. 我认为她低估了这份报告的重要性。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryUnderplay is used with these nouns as the object:- role