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[ verb ] become less in amount or intensity
Examples "The storm abated" "The rain let up after a few hours" Used in print (The Wall Street Journal,...)A voice on the loudspeaker_system announced that if the rain let_up the performance would resume in ten minutes . |
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[ verb ] make less strong or severe
Examples "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down" Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)I let_up on the accelerator , only to gradually reach again the 60 m._p._h. which would , I hoped , overhaul Herry and the blonde , and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I , Mrs._Major_Roebuck settled_down to practicing on Corporal_Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante_Fe . |
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