tone_down
tone_down.01 - diminish intensity
TONE_DOWN-V NOTES: No Verbnet entry. (from tone.01-v)Aliases:
tone_down (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: cause of diminishment, agent
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming less intense
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming less intense
the one example
Shaken by tumbling stock prices and pessimistic projections of U.S. economic growthARGM-PRD
, currency analysts around the worldARG0
have tonedrel
downrel
their assessments of the dollar 's near - term performanceARG1
.