let up

verb

1. to diminish, slacken, or stop
2. informal.
   foll by on to be less harsh (towards someone)

noun

1. informal.
   a lessening or abatement

Example Sentences

There was a kind of let-up in the storm jest afore I got here, and they see her fast on the shoal with the crew in the riggin'.

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Right along from then on they kept things moving 14 spirited, one way and another, without much of a let-up.

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Everything looks so fine and handsome with the business, now, that I feel a great let-up from depression.

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I've been watching for two mortal hours and there hasn't been a let-up yet.

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Slowly the day of storm passed, but with no let-up in the falling snow.

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