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dial back

dial back verb: to reduce (one's energy or intensity); to restrain (a feeling or action).

Verb

dial back (third-person singular simple present dials back, present participle (US) dialing back or (UK) dialling back, simple past and past participle (US) dialed back or (UK) dialled back)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To reduce (one's energy or intensity); to restrain (a feeling or action).
    • The Des Moines station asked him to dial back his coverage, facing what he called an understandable pressure to maintain ratings.2023 July 9, AP, “‘You should have seen this note’: US meteorologists harassed for reporting on climate crisis”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Antonyms:
    dial up, ratchet up

dial back meaning in Bengali

dial back in Bengali

কমানো, নিয়ন্ত্রণ করা

Synonyms of dial back

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Forms of dial back

third-person singular presentdials back
present participle USdialing back
present participle UKdialling back
past participle USdialed back
past USdialed back
past participle UKdialled back
past UKdialled back

Questions about dial back

What does dial back mean?
Dial back means to reduce (one's energy or intensity); to restrain (a feeling or action).
What is dial back in Bengali?
Dial back in Bengali is কমানো, নিয়ন্ত্রণ করা. See Dial back meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is dial back?
Dial back is a verb.
What is the past tense of dial back?
The past tense of dial back is dialed back.

Words near dial back in the dictionary

  1. Diakites
  2. Diakofto
  3. diakoptics
  4. Diakopto
  5. dial
  6. dial back
  7. dial down
  8. dial down a notch
  9. dial gauge
  10. dial gauges
  11. dial in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dial back (page history and authors); dial back (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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