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lets upverbpresent tense third-person singular of let up to come to an endthe rain let up just as we reached the house breaks off, breaks up, ceases, closes, concludes, dead-ends, determines, dies, discontinues, elapses, ends, expires, finishes, goes, halts, lapses, leaves off, passes, quits, stops, terminates, winds up, winks (out) desists (from), lays off (of), refrains (from)gives over(British), knocks off, packs (up or in)breaks down, conks (out), cuts out, stallspauses, stays, suspendsabates, peters (out), winds down bites the dust continues, hangs on, persists draws out, extends, prolongs, protracts to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe windmill slowed down as the wind let up abates, declines, decreases, de-escalates, dies (away or down or out), diminishes, drains (away), drops (off), dwindles, eases, ebbs, falls, falls away, lessens, 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 |