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Turn Television I Hear Reduce Amount Means Control

Sentence Turn down the television so I can hear myself think.
Definition (
idiomatic
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic
) To reduce the amount of something by means of a control, such as the
volume
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/volume
,
heat
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heat
, or
light
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/light
.

Tags: turn, down

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