Definition of "water down" []

• To dilute; to add water (verb)
• To make weaker. (verb)
• To simplify or oversimplify; to make easier; to make less difficult. (verb)
• To make less restrictive; to make more lenient. (verb)

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• "Back at USUN, I immediately called Crouch and Joseph, and we agreed not to water down our draft resolution—which essentially prohibited all missile-related sales to and from North Korea—to satisfy China and Russia."
• "The floor-to-ceiling double front doors with carved angels, pineapples, and frosted glass, several inches thick, open onto a parlor with a brass and ivory-cushioned sitting bench, a pair of thick oak end tables, and a miniature glass chandelier hanging low over a stairway with a grooved balustrade, channeling running water down into an iron chalice littered with fresh rose petals."
• "I got Mrs Spears-she's the owner of Midhurst-I got her to agree we sink a bore at Willow Creek, that's about flowing over thirty thousand gallons a day; it's going to make twenty miles south-east of the homestead, to get water down at that end in the dry, and we got a bonza bore, we did."