Let Up

Definition: Let Up

Let Up

Verb

1. Become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated".

2. Make less strong or severe; "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Let Up

Crosswords: Let Up

And won't let up, won't let up and I see them coming in, (Birdland; performing artist: Patti Smith)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

One business where there is no let up in demand. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Thailand

While this places all the more importance on stimulating the domestic economy, the government is unlikely to let up on export promotion initiatives at the same time as it redoubles efforts to stimulate the domestic economy. (references)

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Expressions using "let up": let up fall ♦ let up on ♦ To let up. Additional references.

Albanian

qetësohet (lull, quiet down), heq dorë (abdicate, cede, chuck, depart, drop it, give oneself up to, give up, kick, release, remise, resign, tek pupa). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كف (hand, leave off, palm, roll up, thwack, tuck), ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

поотпускам се (ease off, ease up, go easy, thaw). (various references)

Czech

zastavení (cessation, discontinuance, halt, pull back, stand, stay, stillstand, stop, suspension, tackle), polevit (deteriorate, die down, drop, slacken), polevení (deterioration, remission), přestat (cease, cut it out, discontinue, drop, go away, go through, have done with, leave, leave off, quit, stop), přerušení (adjournment, breach, break, cessation, discontinuation, disruption, intermission, interruption, let, recess, stop, stoppage, suspense). (various references)

French

s'adoucir, diminuer (lessen). (various references)

German

sich legen (abate, blow out, blow over, clear, clear away, cool, die down, heel, lie, lie down, pass, settle, subside, vanish, wear off), sich geben (behave, cool, ease off, get less, sort itself out), aufziehen (arrange, back, breed, bring up, come up, draw back, draw up, educate, foster, haul up, hoist, hoist up, Josh, kid, lead on, make fun of, march up, mother, Mount, mounting, pull open, pull up, put on, rag, raise, ravel out, razz, rear, set up, slip on, strech, stretch, tease, to razz, to twit, to wind up, twit, uncork, undo, unravel, untie, wind, wind up, zoom out). (various references)

Hebrew 

לח�"ול (cease, desist, leave off, stop), ל�"רפות (desist, forsake, lay off, relax, slack, temper, unhand). (various references)

Hungarian

szünet (break, cease, check, halt, intermission, interval, lull, pause, playtime, recess, respite, silence, stand, stop), meglassul (to let up), enyhül (soften, solace, to abate, to ease, to ease up, to let up, to moderate, to remit, to soften, to thaw), csökken (deaden, dwindle, lessen, to abate, to attenuate, to be down, to deaden, to decrease, to drop, to dwindle, to ease down, to ease up, to extenuate, to fall off, to let up, to lower, to recede, to reduce, to remit, to sag, to slacken, to wane), abbahagyás (discontinuation, surrender). (various references)

Manx

scuirr (abort, adjourn, adjournment, break up, bring to, cease, ceasing, cessation, desist, discontinuance, discontinue, halt, intermission, intermittence, leave off, pause, prorogation, prorogue, pull up, respite, rest, retirement, ring off; interval, shut off, stall, stop). (various references)

Pig Latin

etlay upay.(various references)

Portuguese

cessar (break off, cease, leave, stop, surcease), baixar (come down, down, draw down, droop, drop, ebb, fall, get down, go down, issue, let down, lower, pull down, recede, reduce, sink, subside, take down, tone down, turn down), afrouxar (ease, loose, loosen, relax, slacken, unbend, unbrace, unfix, weaken). (various references)

Romanian

se opri (break, cease, check, come down, come to a stand, come to a stop, draw up, halt, pause, rest, stand, stand at, stop), oprire (arrest, ban, block, call off, cease, cessation, containment, end, foreclosure, halt, interruption, obstruction, pause, prohibition, retention, stage, stall, stand, standstill, station, stay, stick, stop, stoppage, stopping), încetinire (lagging, let down, retardation), încetini (delay, retard, slacken, slow). (various references)

Russian 

прекращаться (cease, end, finish, stop). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

popustiti (cede, defer, ease up, give in, give way to, relax, relent, remit, slack, slacken, unbrace), malaksati (droop, flag, grow feeble, languish), jenjati (slacken). (various references)

Spanish

llegar a fin (come to an end), relatar (describe, dovetail, recount, relate, report, tell), aflojar (abandon ship, abate, ease, fork out, loose, loosen, lower, relax, relent, sink, slacken), calma (calm, calm down, calmness, calms, composure, coolness, damp, dispassionateness, lull, nonchalance, still, there, unconcern), cesar (break, break off, cap, cease, close up, come, cut off, delete, disable, eat up, end, expire, follow up, get over, get through, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, liquidate, stop, surcease, terminate, throw over, top off, wind up, zip, zip up), dejar de presionar, descanso (at ease, break, breather, breathing space, decree, distraction, diversion, encampment, flop, half time, holidays, interlude, intermission, interval, landing, pause, recess, relaxation, repose, rest, stand at ease, tease, time out, travel), describir (Chronicle, depict, describe, explain, label, paint, picture, portray), disminición, finalizar (cap, close, closure, come, conclude, eat up, expire, finalize, hole, knock off, leave off, terminate, throw over, top off, wind up), hacerse moderado, moderarse (abate, ease, moderate), acabar (accomodate, accomplish, break off, come, complement, complete, discontinue, eat up, end, expire, finish, follow up, get over, give over, go out, hole, knock off, land, leave off, play out, round off, terminate, throw over, top off, use up, wash out, waste, wind up, work out), poseer indiferencia, venir a final, respiro (lull, reprieve, respite), ser indiferente, ser tranquilo (forbear), tener alma indiferente, tener alma serena, tener alma sosa, tener indiferencia, terminar (accomodate, break, break off, call it a day, close up, come, complete, conclude, discontinue, dispose of, end, end up, expire, finish, finish off, follow up, go out, leave off, sign off, stay, stop, terminate, throw over), tomar calmante, trabajar con menos intensidad, tratar (attend, behave towards, carry, deal, deal with, doctor, handle, like, process, to treat, treat, try on, walk over), tregua (lull, respite, truce), narrar (narrate, recite, relate, report). (various references)

Swedish

sluta (be through with, cease, close, come to an end, conclude, discontinue, drop it, drop out, end, end up, expire, finish, finish off, finish up, fold up, give over, leave off, quit, re-energise, re-energize, sag, stop, stop it, terminate, turn out), minska (abate, allay, curtail, decrease, degrade, descend, detract from, diminish, ease, extenuate, fall off, fine away, fine down, go down, lapse, lessen, lower, put down, reduce, sag, shrink, sink, slacken, step down, subside, wane), försvagas (become weak, diminish, fail), avta (abate, decrease, diminish, drop off, ease, ebb, fail, fall, fall away, fall off, lessen, lower, moderate, slacken, tail away, wane). (various references)

Turkish

sakinleşmek (become tranquilized, calm down, compose oneself, cool down, hush, let one's hair down, quiet, quiet down, quieten, resettle, simmer down, slacken, smooth, smooth down, still, subside), kesilmek (be cut, be interrupted, become, cease, close down, clot, Curdle, die away, die down, drop, dry up, go down, go off, go sour, intermit, set, shear, sour, stop, surcease, turn sour), gevşemek (come loose, come unstuck, cool down, ease off, fade, flag, get loose, go limp, languish, let go, let upon, loosen, relax, slack, slack off, slacken, soften, unbend, unbrace oneself, unwind, work loose), gevşeme (loosening, relaxation, slackening), durmak (be, cease, come to a halt, come to a stop, discontinue, draw rein, draw up, endure, halt, harp, hold, hold on, intermit, keep, linger, pack up, pull in, pull up, remain, rest, run down, stall, stand, stay, stop), dinmek (blow out, cease, lay, leave off, pass, pass off, quiet down, quieten), dinme (alleviation, ease, failure, quiet), azalma (abatement, alleviation, attenuation, decline, decrease, decrement, degradation, diminution, drop, falling away, falling off, impairment, letdown, reduce, reduction, remission, scale down, shortening, subsidence, wane). (various references)

Ukrainian

слабнути (attenuate, break up, droop, fail, faint, tone down). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: letup.

-1 letter: lept, lute, pelt, pule, tule.

-2 letters: let, leu, pet, pul, put, tel, tup.

-3 letters: el, et, pe, up, ut.

+1 letter: letups, penult, plutei, pullet, tupelo.

+2 letters: couplet, eelpout, epaulet, gluepot, octuple, opulent, outleap, outyelp, penults, plateau, plumate, plummet, pluteus, pollute, poulter, pullets, pulsate, pustule, spurtle, stipule, tupelos, upleapt.

+3 letters: centuple, copulate, couplets, cupulate, drupelet, eelpouts, epaulets, eucalypt, gluepots, gulpiest, lumpiest, multiped, multiple, octupled, octuples, octuplet, octuplex, outleaps, outleapt, outsleep, outslept, outspell, outspelt, outyelps, patulent, peculate, petalous, petulant, plateaus, plateaux, plateful, plectrum, pleuston, plumelet, plumiest, plummets, plumpest, plushest, polluted, polluter, pollutes, populate, postlude, poulters, poultice, preadult, pubertal, pulpiest, pulsated, pulsates, pulsejet, pulsojet, purplest, purulent, pustuled, pustules, resculpt, sculpted, septuple, sextuple, sextuply, spiteful, splutter, spurtles, stipuled, stipules, sulphate, sulphite, supplest, tumpline, unpolite, uplifted, uplifter, uptilted.