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de-escalatesverbpresent tense third-person singular of de-escalate to make smaller in amount, volume, or extentfirst, the mediator tried to de-escalate the tension in the room abates, decreases, dents, depletes, diminishes, downscales, downsizes, drops, dwindles, eases, knocks down, lessens, lowers, reduces compresses, condenses, constricts, contractsabbreviates, abridges, clips, crops, curtails, cuts, cuts back, cuts down, docks, nicks, pares, prunes, retrenches, shortens, slashes, trims, truncates, whittlesdeflates, shrinksminimizesmoderates, modifies, modulates, qualifies aggrandizes, amplifies, augments, boosts, enlarges, escalates, expands, increases, raises blows up, dilates, distends, inflates, swellselongates, extends, lengthens, prolongs, protractsadds (to), complements, supplementsenhances, heightens, intensifiesredoubles to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe fighting de-escalated as the peace talks progressed abates, declines, decreases, dies (away or down or out), diminishes, drains (away), drops (off), dwindles, eases, ebbs, falls, falls away, lessens, lets up, lowers, moderates, palls, phases down, ratchets (down)also rachets (down), recedes, relents, remits, shrinks, subsides, tapers, tapers off, wanes compresses, condenses, constricts, contractsevaporates, fades (away), fritters (away), gives out, melts (away), peters (out), tails (off), vanishesslackens, slows (down)alleviates, relaxesflags, sinks, weakenscaves (in), collapses, deflates accumulates, balloons, builds, burgeons(also bourgeons), enlarges, escalates, expands, grows, increases, intensifies, mounts, mushrooms, picks up, rises, snowballs, soars, swells, waxes appears, emerges, shows upblows up, distends, elongates, lengthens |