0 present participle of tone
1 If you tone a part of the body, you make it firmer and stronger, usually by doing physical exercise:
Hedging: an exploratory study of authors and readers identification of 'toning down' in scientific texts.
In sum, the rise and legitimation of a far-reaching national administrative state has led to the toning down of presidential populist rhetoric.
Key among the revisions was the excising or toning down the sexuality and violence which so characterized the original score.
One could stipulate that perhaps toning up irregular past retrieval is in fact a relatively long, difficult, high-error process, lasting many tens to hundreds of responses.
He is toning up—if that is the right technical phraseology—and is also providing for the effect of the valuation lists.
One can either do something about toning down demand or, alternatively, increase the supply.
It means removing, or at least toning down, the criticisms as far as possible in order not to upset anybody.
I was not toning down what my right honourable friend said in his speech.
