waters down

The phrase “waters down” has 3 syllables: wa-ters down

It's pronounced as /ˈwɔːtərz daʊn/


What is synonym and antonym for waters down?

In the thesaurus, “waters down” has 38 synonyms and 29 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for waters down along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for waters down

  • adulterates
  • attenuates
  • befouls
  • cheapens
  • contaminates
  • corrupts
  • counterfeits
  • cuts
  • debases
  • defiles
  • degrades
  • dilutes
  • dirties
  • doctors
  • envenoms
  • extends
  • fakes
  • falsifies
  • fouls
  • fudges
  • infects
  • laces
  • loads
  • manipulates
  • misrepresents
  • moderates
  • poisons
  • pollutes
  • qualifies
  • soils
  • sophisticates
  • spikes
  • spoils
  • sullies
  • taints
  • tempers
  • thins
  • weakens

Antonyms for waters down

  • augments
  • betters
  • clarifies
  • cleans
  • cleanses
  • compacts
  • concentrates
  • condenses
  • decontaminates
  • distills
  • distils
  • enhances
  • enriches
  • fertilizes
  • filters
  • flushes
  • fortifies
  • improves
  • lards
  • leaches
  • pasteurizes
  • purges
  • purifies
  • reenforces
  • refines
  • reinforces
  • richens
  • strengthens
  • supplements

Example Sentences

  • The editor waters down the article to make it more acceptable to a wider audience.
  • He often waters down his opinions to avoid offending anyone.
  • The company waters down its environmental policy to attract more investors.
  • She waters down the proposal to make it seem less radical.
  • The filmmaker waters down the story for a younger audience, removing much of the original intensity.

On this page you'll find 67 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to waters down, such as: adulterates, attenuates, augments, befouls, betters, cheapens, clarifies.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

abases

  • abashes
  • affronts
  • bad-mouths
  • bastardizes
  • befouls
  • begrimes
  • belittles
  • blemishes
  • cankers
  • castigates
  • censures
  • chastens
  • cheapens
  • condemns
  • confounds
  • confuses
  • contaminates
  • corrupts
  • cries down
  • criticizes
  • damages
  • damns
  • debases
  • debauches
  • decries
  • defaces
  • defames
  • defiles
  • degrades
  • demeans
  • demoralizes
  • denounces
  • depraves
  • depreciates
  • descends
  • destroys
  • deteriorates
  • detracts
  • dilutes
  • diminishes
  • dirties
  • discomfits
  • disconcerts
  • discountenances
  • discounts
  • discredits
  • disgraces
  • dishonors
  • disparages
  • downgrades
  • embarrasses
  • execrates
  • fazes
  • flaws
  • flusters
  • fouls
  • harms
  • humbles
  • humiliates
  • hurts
  • impairs
  • insults
  • lessens
  • libels
  • lowers
  • maligns
  • mars
  • minimizes
  • mortifies
  • nonpluses
  • nonplusses
  • perverts
  • poisons
  • pollutes
  • profanes
  • prostitutes
  • puts down
  • rattles
  • reprehends
  • reprobates
  • ridicules
  • ruins
  • shames
  • sinks
  • slanders
  • smirches
  • spoils
  • stains
  • subverts
  • taints
  • takes down
  • tarnishes
  • thins
  • vitiates
  • warps
  • waters down
  • weakens
  • wrecks
  • writes off

laces

  • adulterates
  • alternates
  • amalgamates
  • aromatizes
  • assails
  • assaults
  • assimilates
  • attacks
  • attenuates
  • bashes
  • bastes
  • bats
  • batters
  • beats
  • beats up on
  • befouls
  • belabors
  • belts
  • besets
  • birches
  • blackjacks
  • blends
  • bludgeons
  • boxes
  • braidings
  • braids
  • buffets
  • bungee cords
  • bungees
  • bungs up
  • busts
  • cables
  • canes
  • cheapens
  • chops
  • clobbers
  • clouts
  • clubs
  • combines
  • commingles
  • contaminates
  • cords
  • cornrows
  • corrupts
  • counterfeits
  • cowhides
  • cracks
  • cudgels
  • cuffs
  • curries
  • cuts
  • debases
  • defiles
  • degrades
  • dilutes
  • dirties
  • doctors
  • does
  • dreadlocks
  • drubs
  • embodies
  • enhances
  • enlaces
  • enriches
  • entwines
  • envenoms
  • extends
  • fakes
  • falsifies
  • fibs
  • flagellates
  • flavors
  • flogs
  • fouls
  • fudges
  • fuses
  • fustigates
  • gores
  • guys
  • halyards
  • hammers
  • hides
  • hits
  • horsewhips
  • implicates
  • incorporates
  • infects
  • inserts
  • integrates
  • interlaces
  • intermingles
  • intersperses
  • intertwines
  • intertwists
  • interweaves
  • inweaves
  • joins
  • juxtaposes
  • knocks
  • lacerates
  • lacings
  • lambastes
  • lambasts
  • lams
  • lanyards
  • lashes
  • lathers
  • lays on
  • leathers
  • licks
  • lines
  • links
  • loads
  • maims
  • mangles
  • manipulates
  • mauls
  • merges
  • mingles
  • misrepresents
  • mixes
  • moderates
  • mutilates
  • paddles
  • pastes
  • pelts
  • peppers
  • perfumes
  • pigtails
  • pistol-whips
  • plaits
  • plats
  • pleaches
  • plies
  • poisons
  • pollutes
  • pommels
  • pounds
  • pummels
  • punches
  • punches out
  • qualifies
  • queues
  • raids
  • rawhides
  • rickracks
  • ricracs
  • ropes
  • rushes
  • salts
  • sauces
  • savors
  • savours
  • scourges
  • seasons
  • slams
  • slaps
  • slates
  • slogs
  • smacks
  • smashes
  • socks
  • soils
  • sophisticates
  • spanks
  • spices
  • spikes
  • spoils
  • stays
  • storms
  • straps
  • strings
  • stripes
  • sullies
  • swats
  • swipes
  • switches
  • taints
  • tans
  • tempers
  • thins
  • thrashes
  • threads
  • threshes
  • thumps
  • thwacks
  • tromps
  • twists
  • wallops
  • waters down
  • weakens
  • weaves
  • whacks
  • whales
  • whams
  • whaps
  • whipcords
  • whips
  • whomps
  • whops
  • whups
  • wires
  • works over
  • wounds
  • wreathes
  • writhes

debases

  • abases
  • abashes
  • affronts
  • bad-mouths
  • bastardizes
  • befouls
  • begrimes
  • belittles
  • blemishes
  • cankers
  • castigates
  • censures
  • chastens
  • cheapens
  • condemns
  • confounds
  • confuses
  • contaminates
  • corrupts
  • cries down
  • criticizes
  • damages
  • damns
  • debauches
  • decries
  • defaces
  • defames
  • defiles
  • degrades
  • demeans
  • demoralizes
  • denounces
  • depraves
  • depreciates
  • descends
  • destroys
  • deteriorates
  • detracts
  • dilutes
  • diminishes
  • dirties
  • discomfits
  • disconcerts
  • discountenances
  • discounts
  • discredits
  • disgraces
  • dishonors
  • disparages
  • downgrades
  • embarrasses
  • execrates
  • fazes
  • flaws
  • flusters
  • fouls
  • harms
  • humbles
  • humiliates
  • hurts
  • impairs
  • insults
  • lessens
  • libels
  • lowers
  • maligns
  • mars
  • minimizes
  • mortifies
  • nonpluses
  • nonplusses
  • perverts
  • poisons
  • pollutes
  • profanes
  • prostitutes
  • puts down
  • rattles
  • reprehends
  • reprobates
  • ridicules
  • ruins
  • shames
  • sinks
  • slanders
  • smirches
  • spoils
  • stains
  • subverts
  • taints
  • takes down
  • tarnishes
  • thins
  • vitiates
  • warps
  • waters down
  • weakens
  • wrecks
  • writes off

debauches

  • abases
  • bastardizes
  • befouls
  • begrimes
  • blemishes
  • cankers
  • cheapens
  • contaminates
  • corrupts
  • damages
  • debases
  • defaces
  • defiles
  • degrades
  • demeans
  • demoralizes
  • depraves
  • depreciates
  • descends
  • destroys
  • deteriorates
  • dilutes
  • dirties
  • disgraces
  • dishonors
  • downgrades
  • flaws
  • harms
  • humbles
  • humiliates
  • hurts
  • impairs
  • lessens
  • mars
  • perverts
  • poisons
  • pollutes
  • profanes
  • prostitutes
  • ruins
  • shames
  • spoils
  • stains
  • subverts
  • taints
  • takes down
  • tarnishes
  • thins
  • vitiates
  • warps
  • waters down
  • weakens
  • wrecks

warps

  • abases
  • anchorages
  • assumptions
  • backbones
  • bases
  • bastardizes
  • bedrocks
  • beds
  • befouls
  • begrimes
  • belies
  • bends
  • blemishes
  • bottoms
  • bowdlerizes
  • braces
  • bulwarks
  • buttresses
  • camouflages
  • cankers
  • censors
  • centers
  • cheapens
  • coils
  • colors
  • complicates
  • confounds
  • confuses
  • contaminates
  • contorts
  • cooks
  • cores
  • cornerstones
  • corrupts
  • curls
  • damages
  • debases
  • debauches
  • defaces
  • defiles
  • deforms
  • degrades
  • demeans
  • demoralizes
  • depraves
  • depreciates
  • descends
  • destroys
  • deteriorates
  • dilutes
  • dirties
  • disfigures
  • disgraces
  • disguises
  • dishonors
  • dissembles
  • distorts
  • downgrades
  • equivocates
  • essences
  • eyes
  • falsifies
  • fibs
  • flaws
  • foci
  • focuses
  • footings
  • foundations
  • frameworks
  • fudges
  • garbles
  • grounds
  • groundworks
  • harms
  • hearts
  • hubs
  • humbles
  • humiliates
  • hurts
  • impairs
  • infrastructures
  • justifications
  • kernels
  • keystones
  • lessens
  • lies
  • loops
  • mars
  • masks
  • misdescribes
  • misinterprets
  • misrelates
  • misrepresents
  • misshapes
  • misspeaks
  • misstates
  • mistakes
  • mistranslates
  • mounts
  • mystifies
  • nuclei
  • nucleuses
  • obscures
  • palters
  • perverts
  • poisons
  • pollutes
  • premises
  • premisses
  • presumptions
  • presuppositions
  • prevaricates
  • profanes
  • props
  • prostitutes
  • quintessences
  • rationales
  • roots
  • ruins
  • screws
  • seats
  • shames
  • shores
  • slants
  • souls
  • spirals
  • spoils
  • squinches
  • stains
  • stays
  • substrata
  • substructures
  • subverts
  • supports
  • suppositions
  • taints
  • takes down
  • tarnishes
  • theories
  • theses
  • thins
  • tortures
  • touchstones
  • twines
  • twists
  • underpinnings
  • veils
  • vitiates
  • warp and woofs
  • warrants
  • waters down
  • weakens
  • whitewashes
  • winds
  • wreathes
  • wrecks
  • wrenches
  • wrests
  • wrings

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