Synonyms and Antonyms of letting up
1
to come to an end
- the rain let up just as we reached the house
breaking off, breaking up, ceasing, closing, concluding, dead-ending, determining, discontinuing, dying, elapsing, ending, expiring, finishing, going, halting, lapsing, leaving off, passing, quitting, stopping, terminating, winding up, winking (out)
desisting (from), laying off (of), refraining (from)
giving over [British], knocking off, packing (up or in)
breaking down, conking (out), cutting out, stalling
pausing, staying, suspending
abating, petering (out), winding down
2
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
- the windmill slowed down as the wind let up
abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down) also
racheting (down)
, receding, relenting, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning
compressing, condensing, constricting, contracting
evaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishing
slackening, slowing (down)
alleviating, relaxing
flagging, sinking, weakening
caving (in), collapsing, deflating
accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning (also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing
