water down
B2CEFR level
30/100Rarity: fairly common
NeutralRegister
To make a proposal, statement or rule weaker or less forceful, often to make it more acceptable.
Under pressure from industry, the government watered down the emissions targets.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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