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let up

VERB
pause
Synonyms
WEAK
abate cease decrease die down die out diminish ease ease off ease up ebb fall moderate release relent slacken slow down stop subside wane
Antonyms
WEAK
continue

Example Sentences

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After declining in 2024 and 2023, investment began to surge at the start of 2024 — and it hasn’t let up.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

Scotland lost men to injury but never let up.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Second, invest in treatment and don’t let up.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Previous rounds of talks since Moscow invaded -- in Turkey multiple times, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland and Belarus -- have seen no let up in the killing or Russian bombardments.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

The rain let up just as we came upon La Cumbre, the lonely mountain village that had grown up around one of Trujillo’s seldom-used mansions.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez