LETTING UP Synonyms: 136 Similar and Opposite Words

letting up 1 of 2

adjective

as in dying (down)

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letting up

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verb

present participle of let up

as in ending

to come to an end the rain let up just as we reached the house

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as in decreasing

to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually the windmill slowed down as the wind let up

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Recent Examples of letting up

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On every metric—sales, profit, assets and market value—these bellwether companies, 787 from Asia, collectively scaled to record levels, most likely reaping gains from not letting up. — Naazneen Karmali, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026 Rain pummeled the ground outside the tunnel, but the storm was short-lived, gradually letting up and then stopping altogether. — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026 Arizona’s Pocket Fire, burning north of Sedona for more than a week, shows no sign of letting up. — Aria Bendix, NBC news, 27 June 2026 There was to be no letting up at Gillette Stadium. — Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 24 June 2026 The fact that travel isn’t letting up despite the higher costs isn’t a surprise, said Adam Sacks, president of Tourism Economics, an Oxford Economics consulting company. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 24 May 2026 Data center spending, which is the main source of Nvidia’s revenue, hasn’t shown signs of letting up. — Ian King, Fortune, 20 May 2026 The Georgia Legislature roundly rejected a bill legalizing sports betting, but sports betting companies aren’t letting up. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 15 May 2026 Running a tight 95 minutes, and never letting up for one of them, Apex is yet another perfect showcase for Theron’s exceptional physical talents as the premier female action star working in movies. — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for letting up

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Gabby Williams and Tiffany Hayes scored 15 points apiece in the first of back-to-back matchups between the teams at Chase Center, where a raucous sellout crowd cheered Golden State ending a two-game skid that followed a nine-game winning streak.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
That could prove to be true after all thanks to the improbable return of Owens, who shocked the world by coming back just a year and a half after what appeared to be career-ending neck surgery.

— Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026

Definition of ending

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The sterile male flies mated with fertile female flies, but the interactions didn’t produce offspring, decreasing the overall fly population.

— Nollyanne Delacruz, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
The result is increasing structural lifespan and decreasing potentially massive costs during work disruption, repair, and replacement.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 July 2026

Definition of decreasing

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Nets, Disruptions, and Camouflage Close reading, however, reveals a few telling details about what the Pentagon views as best practices for stopping and killing drones.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
Defeat technologies are an essential piece in the kill chain, as detection is only the first step to stopping the threat.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026

Definition of stopping

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India, one of the world's most prolific IPO markets, was gearing up for issues worth $50 billion as tension in the Middle East were subsiding.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 9 July 2026
The afternoon started tough until the wind kept subsiding, and players began taking aim at flags.

— Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026

Definition of subsiding

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In that case, a middle school student targeted 11 female classmates in deepfake images, and the school delayed contacting police until after concluding its own internal investigation.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 31 July 2026
This marks Skelton’s first TV role since concluding her seven-year run on Starz’s Outlander playing Brianna Randall Fraser.

— Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 29 July 2026

Definition of concluding

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Plants and animals keenly sense the diminishing light, which acts as a master biological clock that triggers changes such as migration, shifting hormone levels and winter coat growth.

— Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Without diminishing that aspect of music, Musical Bodies rightly situates as much meaning in the objects themselves.

— Jonathon Keats, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Definition of diminishing

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However, without a clear option behind him in the A’s organization, Heim may be too valuable to trade, despite his contract expiring at the end of the season.

— Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 1 Aug. 2026
Barcelona, constrained by Financial Fair Play, aims to renew Torres' contract but cannot offer a new deal until September, despite his current one expiring in 2027.

— Tom Sanderson, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026