letting up
Slowing its intensity
Letting up is easing off or becoming less intense.
Rain lets up when it slackens.
Pain lets up when it subsides.
A person who won't let up keeps pressing relentlessly: The coach never lets up on us during practice.
The heat showed no sign of letting up.
- stoppingCeasing to continue
- slowing downReducing pace or velocity
- backing offCeasing to pursue
- slackeningReduction in tightness
- tapering offGradually becoming less
ease · abatement · giving way · leniency · reprieve · relief · subsiding · relenting · respite · coming up for air · de-escalation · tempering · mitigation · diminishing · softening · lightening up · deceleration · relaxation
- decliningdeclining, waning, fading, diminishing, decreasing
- retreatback away, back off, withdrawal, retreating, back up
intensity/pressure
letting upintensifying
Increasing in strength
escalating · increasing · ramping up · building up · stepping up
persistence/continuation
letting uppersisting
Continuing through difficulty
continuing · keeping up · pressing on · unrelenting · carrying on