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dialing back

dialing back is the present participle and gerund of dial back.

Meaning of dial back

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

Questions about dialing back

What is dialing back the present participle and gerund of?
Dialing back is the present participle and gerund of dial back.

Words near dialing back in the dictionary

  1. dialgebras
  2. dialid
  3. dialids
  4. dialin
  5. dialing
  6. dialing back
  7. dialing down
  8. dialing down a notch
  9. dialing in
  10. dialing into
  11. dialing it in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dialing back (page history and authors); dial back (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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