VERB
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reduce pressure or intensity
he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down -
become less in amount or intensity
The rain let up after a few hours
The storm abated
How To Use let up In A Sentence
- The theatrical element of the show though never let up with various song and dance set pieces featuring trapeze artists, skateboarders, a tap dancer in top hat and tails, and even a dancing bagpiper.
- IT sounded like the roar of 50,000 rampaging bull elephants and didn't let up all afternoon. The Sun
- A ripple of nervous laughter rippled through the room, and he held his goblet up in a toast.
- We have overspent . We'll have to let up our expenditures next month.
- The razzing never let up and life became a misery. Times, Sunday Times
- Nothing here, nothing there, lazied around work and took calls and actually found myself bored when the call volume let up a bit. Terrarose Diary Entry
- The rain was drizzling on both men, refusing to let up.
- The leaves are 10-25 cm long, pinnate, with 5-9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy. Archive 2006-04-01
- We have overspent . We'll have to let up our expenditures next month.
- We can't let up on our efforts to compete with other more successful firms.