let up
Diminish in intensity
Let up means to diminish, ease, or stop—usually said of something unpleasant or intense.
Rain lets up, pain lets up, pressure lets up: The storm finally let up around midnight.
To let up on someone is to stop being so hard on them: The coach refused to let up on the team.
As a noun, a letup is a pause or reduction: There was no letup in the fighting.
Make less firm
- yieldProduce or relinquish
- give wayCollapse or relent
- ease offBecome less intense
- back offStop pressing someone
go easy · show mercy · forgive · unbend · thaw · mellow · slacken · relax
subside
Decrease in intensity
ease · wane · slacken · taper · moderate · weaken · fade · dwindle · relent · recede
soften
Make less firm
back off · go easy · show mercy · forgive · unbend · thaw · mellow · slacken · relax · moderate
break
Interrupt continuity
intermission · hiatus · recess · interlude · interval · rest · reprieve · halt · cessation · downtime
clear
Without obstruction or fog
improve · pass · blow over · calm · settle · sunshine · clearing
- diminishingabate, decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb
- idlingidle, idled, loaf, loafed, laze
- slowed downbraked, decelerated, reduced speed, slackened, throttled
- calming downcalmed, relaxed, chilled, settled, mellowed
- motion idiomsin motion, on the move, on the go, move forward, move along
- declinedecline, in decline, decrease, downswing, on the decline
let upbear down
Exert intense pressure
pile on · crack down · turn up the heat · double down · clamp down