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watered-downadjective1Diluted with water: watered-down wine watered-down blue paint...- The usual bottles of watered-down Jameson will be presented.
- To the fur traders they were commodities who could be purchased and indentured to company stores through watered-down alcohol and cheaply made goods.
- In the '80s, several low-cal wines flopped because they tasted watered-down.
1.1Altered so as to be weaker in force, content, or value: a watered-down version of the book the watered-down proposal has not been welcomed...- Similarly, three years later, the government managed to win parliamentary approval for only a watered-down version of the measure abolishing religious orders.
- Throwing the disc into my player I didn't quite know what to expect, perhaps a watered-down Herbie Goes Bananas knock-off, only animated.
- He was turning music I grew up on into a watered-down fad, a moneymaking thing.
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