ramp down
Ease off slowly
Ramp down means to decrease gradually, the opposite of ramp up.
The image is of descending an incline rather than dropping off a cliff—a controlled reduction rather than an abrupt stop.
Businesses ramp down production when demand falls.
Military operations ramp down as conflicts wind toward conclusion.
We're ramping down our marketing spend for the quarter.
- decreaseBecome or make smaller
- taperNarrow gradually toward point
- taper offReduce gradually in intensity
- reduceMake smaller in degree
- scale backReduce in extent
pull back · decelerate · slow · phase out · diminish · ease off · ease up · let up · cool off · subside · wane · decline · soften · slack off · back off · de-escalate · drawdown · ebb
- diminishingabate, decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb
- scaling downscale back, cut back, dial back, taper off, roll back
- intensity changesincrease, decrease, intensify, amplify, diminish
- sound changesassimilation, elision, deletion, voicing, nasalization
- System Metricslatency, throughput, response time, uptime, downtime