LETTING UP (ON) Synonyms: 48 Similar and Opposite Words

letting up (on)

verb

present participle of let up (on)

as in tapering (off)

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Little brown bats can similarly reduce their metabolic demands by going Dracula for months at a time, decreasing their body temperatures by more than fifty degrees Fahrenheit and slowing their respiration to a handful of breaths an hour.

— Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026
The steadiest and most widespread coverage of any rain should be early in the day with the coverage decreasing during the afternoon and evening.

— Rachael Jay, CBS News, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of decreasing

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Shower filters are better at reducing substances like chlorine, sediment and certain metals.

— Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
The Fed’s goal is to slow consumer and business spending by raising the cost of borrowing, thereby reducing demand for homes, cars and other goods and services, eventually cooling the economy and reducing upward pressure on prices.

— Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026

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Seemingly, the only thing that could slow down the automobile takeover was diminishing fuel supplies, fear of which had become a fixation of American oil companies and government officials after the Armistice.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2026
Having already weathered so many attacks aimed at diminishing its power, the remaining Iranian leadership, which learned to tolerate hardship in the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, is unlikely to be cowed by further aggression.

— JAMES F. JEFFREY, Foreign Affairs, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of diminishing

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That strategy, designed to feed riders to trains and buses while lessening dependency on cars, led to the creation of Downtown Dadeland and clusters of towers and shops now rising around transit stations.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 20 Aug. 2026
His approach sought to use technology to compensate for those shortages, lessening the burden of mobilization, which remains a sore point for Ukrainian society.

— David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2026

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