Screen and Tone down

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Screen verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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Tone down and screen are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tone down" instead a verb "Screen".

Nearby Words: screened, screening, scree, screenful

Tone down verb - Make less strong or intense; soften.

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Screen and tone down are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Screen" instead a verb "Tone down".

Media Watchdog: The purple blood of the Klingons - as well as Vaq's conspicuous death behind a metal screen - were attempts to 'censor' the game and tone down its violence.

Source: Video Game / Star Trek: Klingon
The same toon's B-plot saw Slappy forced to build some machine to tone down on-screen violence, which ended up working by moving the violence offscreen.

Source: Take That, Critics!
Never Say "Die": Averted half the time (especially with Red Impulse), although the dub team did what they could to tone down certain on-screen deaths within episodes, or simply have characters "knocked out".

Source: Anime / G-Force: Guardians of Space

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