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de-escalateverb to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentfirst, the mediator tried to de-escalate the tension in the room abate, decrease, dent, deplete, diminish, downscale, downsize, drop, dwindle, ease, knock down, lessen, lower, reduce compress, condense, constrict, contractabbreviate, abridge, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, dock, nick, pare, prune, retrench, shorten, slash, trim, truncate, whittledeflate, shrinkminimizemoderate, modify, modulate, qualify aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, enlarge, escalate, expand, increase, raise blow up, dilate, distend, inflate, swellelongate, extend, lengthen, prolong, protractadd (to), complement, supplementenhance, heighten, intensifyredouble to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe fighting de-escalated as the peace talks progressed abate, decline, decrease, die (away or down or out), diminish, drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, pall, phase down, ratchet (down)also rachet (down), recede, relent, remit, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane compress, condense, constrict, contractevaporate, fade (away), fritter (away), give out, melt (away), peter (out), tail (off), vanishslacken, slow (down)alleviate, relaxflag, sink, weakencave (in), collapse, deflate accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon(also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax appear, emerge, show upblow up, distend, elongate, lengthen in 1964 |