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Discover Ludwig"watering down" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is an idiom meaning to make something weaker, or to dilute it. For example: "The government watered down the stricter environmental regulations after pressure from the corporations."
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watering down
verb
Present participle of water down
Exact(58)
Is Anheuser-Busch watering down Budweiser?
Effectively, they are watering down their commitment.
Talk about watering down data (or actually, what data?).
Already, it seems, industry lobbying is watering down the changes.
They have to stop watering down their brand.
That description prevents top aides from watering down their titles.
… We are not watering down what we say".
Some critics have accused Mr. Robertson of watering down London's post-Olympic ambitions.
At the Berlin summit in 1999, Mr Chirac alone insisted on watering down farm reforms.
Similar(2)
Mr. Minor dismissed any notion that the changes would amount to a watering-down of courses.
No doubt audiences would protest any watering-down of this juicy confrontation.
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