Letup

Definitions: Letup

Letup

Noun

1. A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise".

Synonym: Letup

Synonym: lull (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Letup

English words defined with "letup": continuing ♦ lull. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	There's never a letup, It's relentless. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		According to a report in late 1998, market sources indicated that the value of new tenders being issued had declined by at least a half. Together with overbuilding, which has led to vacancies in commercial and residential buildings, decreased revenues have been responsible for a letup in the breakneck pace of construction in the UAE. According to market sources, the architecture/construction/engineering services market is following the trend. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "letup"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pushim (break, cease, cessation, chuck, discharge, dismissal, dismission, intermission, leave, outage, pause, playtime, recess, recreation, relaxation, reprieve, respite, rest, standstill, stoppage), pakësim (abatement, attenuation, cut, decrease, decrement, deflation, degression, detraction, diminution, fall, leanness, lessening, modification, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, taper, wane), ndërprerje (break, breaking, cease, cessation, chasm, check, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, intercept, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, intersection, outage, recess, suspension, truce). (various references)

Arabic		‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏إنقطاع (abruption, caesura, cease, cutout, discontinuity, intermission, severance, stopping), ‏راحة (comfort, cosiness, ease, grace, leisure, lie, pause, recuperation, relief, repose, rest, stop). (various references)

Bulgarian		спиране (arrest, blocking, braking, catch, cease, cessation, discontinuance, dwell, halt, hold up, holdback, interruption, prevention, retention, snub, stand, standstill, stay, stop, stopping, tie up), облекчение (alleviation, comfort, relief), облекчаване (mitigation), прекъсване (adjournment, breaking, cessation, check, cutback, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, disjunction, halt, intermission, interruption, knock, outage, pause, pretermission, standstill, suspension, time out), прекратяване (closure, discontinuance, dismissal, surcease, suspension). (various references)

Farsi		فروکش (Deflation, Ebb, Refluence), مکث کردن (Halt, Pause), مکث (Breather, Halt, Pause, Period, Stay), کندکردن (Blunt, Clog, Dull, Rebate, Sheath, Sheathe, Slacken), خفیف شدن , انقطاع (Cessation, Curtailment, Slack). (various references)

French		répit, pause, arrêt. (various references)

German		pause (break, break period, copy, halt, intermission, interval, lull, pause, playtime, recess, recreation, rest, rest and de-energised, rest and de-energized, tracing, truce, work break), nachlassen (abate, abatement, bequeath, decrease, deteriorate, die away, die down, dim, diminish, discount, drop, ease, ease off, ease up, fade, fail, failure, fall, flag, go, intermit, knock off, lessen, loosen, moderate, rebate, reduce, relax, relaxation, relent, remit, respite, sink, slack off, slacken, slacken off, softening, subside, tail off, take off, to abandon ship, to abate, to carry easy sail, to ease up, to go easy, to intermit, to slacken, wane, waver, weaken, wear off). (various references)

Hebrew		�"פסק�" (break, cessation, intermission, interruption, interval, pause, stop). (various references)

Italian		riduzione (abatement, adaptation, allowance, backward zoom, curtailment, cut, cutback, decrease, discount, lowering, rebate, reduction, upward zoom), rallentamento (braking effect, creep, deceleration, lag, negative acceleration, slowdown, slowing down), diminuzione (abatement, decrease, decrement, diminution, drop, fall, fall-off, reduction, remission, wastage). (various references)

Pig Latin		etuplay

Portuguese		pausa (break, breath, breather, caesura, cessation, check, halt, hold, intermission, intersect, interval, pause, recess, respite, rest, standstill, stopping, time out, truce), parada (display, halt, parade, parade ground, Parry, shew, show, stake, stop, venture, wager), folha de alface (carragheen, Irish moss). (various references)

Russian		остановка (cessation, halt, hitch, lay over, layover, locking, pause, pit stop, shut-down, shutdowns, shutoff, stand, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, tie up, tie-up, trapping), ослабление (attenuation, debilitation, decrement, dilution, diminution, extenuation, labefaction, letdown, relaxation, weakening), прекращение (cease, cessation, curtailment, discontinuance, discontinuation, extinction, stop, surcease, truce). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		prekid (abort, abruption, adjournment, break, cease, cessation, cutoff, discontinuance, discontinuation, disruption, interlude, intermission, interruption, pause, rupture, severance). (various references)

Swedish		paus (break, breather, halt, interlude, intermission, interval, lull, pause, recess, rest, stop, time out, wait), minskning (abatement, curtailment, cut, decline, decrease, decrement, degression, diminution, drop off, fall, lapse, letdown, reduction, remission, shrinkage, tail off, tailpiece, wane, wastage), avtagande (abatement, decline, decrease, decrement, decrescent, diminution, fall, refluence, refluent, reflux, subsidies, wane), avbrott (abort, break, cessation, check, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, disrupt, disruption, hiatus, hitch, hold up, intermission, interrupt, interruption, interrupts, interuption, lapse, lull, pause, time out). (various references)

Thai		การน้อยลง, การหยุ�" (break, cessation, check). (various references)

Ukranian		ослаблення (abatement, attenuation, dйtente, debilitation, decay, decrease, depression, derogation, dilution, extenuation, impoverishment, labefaction, let down, prostration), перерва (adjournment, blow, break, caesura, cessation, discontinuity, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interstice, pause, pretermission, recreation, rest, vacation). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "letup": letups. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Letup" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elstrup, eltus, etup, ketupa, latop, layup, lectu, leti, Letoul, letus, leut, liftup, litu, litum, Lotum. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "letup" (pronounced le"tu'p)
4	-e" t u' p	setup.
3	-t u' p	startup.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-l-p-t-u"
	-1 letter: lept, lute, pelt, pule, tule.
	-2 letters: let, leu, pet, pul, put, tel, tup.
	-3 letters: el, et, pe, up, ut.
	Words containing the letters "e-l-p-t-u"
	+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.
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