'take the edge off' definitions:
Synonyms of 'take the edge off'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- allay,
- alleviate,
- appease,
- assuage,
- attemper,
- attenuate,
- bank the fire,
- bate,
- blunt,
- calm,
- chasten,
- conciliate,
- constrain,
- control,
- cool,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-emphasize,
- deaden,
- debilitate,
- defuse,
- devitalize,
- diminish,
- disedge,
- downplay,
- draw the teeth,
- dulcify,
- dull,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- eviscerate,
- exhaust,
- extenuate,
- gruel,
- keep within bounds,
- lay,
- lay low,
- lay the dust,
- lenify,
- lessen,
- lighten,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modulate,
- mollify,
- obtund,
- pacify,
- palliate,
- placate,
- play down,
- pour balm on,
- propitiate,
- rattle,
- reduce,
- reduce the temperature,
- repress,
- restrain,
- retund,
- sap,
- shake,
- shake up,
- slacken,
- slow down,
- smooth,
- smooth down,
- smooth over,
- smother,
- sober,
- sober down,
- soften,
- soften up,
- soothe,
- stifle,
- subdue,
- suppress,
- tame,
- temper,
- tone down,
- tranquilize,
- tune down,
- turn,
- unbrace,
- undermine,
- underplay,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unstrengthen,
- unstring,
- weaken