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tamp down (third-person singular simple present tamps down, present participle tamping down, simple past and past participle tamped down)

  1. To compact a substance (usually soil) until it is flat.
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) To suppress or reduce (something, usually an emotion or thought).
    • 2022 January 17, Jonathan Martin, Maggie Haberman, “Who Is King of Florida? Tensions Rise Between Trump and a Former Acolyte.”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
      Mr. Trump’s aides also have tried to tamp down questions about the former president’s frustrations, so as not to elevate Mr. DeSantis.
    • 2024 September 11, Richard Brody, ““Winner” Takes Political Comedy Seriously”, in The New Yorker[2]:
      [Tina] Satter’s “Reality” has a dramatic vigor that’s missing from the corresponding scenes in [Susanna] Fogel’s “Winner,” but the tamped-down tone in “Winner” is actually closer to the actual tone of those interrogations, as heard firsthand in yet another film—Sonia Kennebeck’s 2021 documentary, “Reality Winner.”

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