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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A reduction in pace, force, or intensity; a slowdown.
- noun A temporary stop; a pause.
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- noun A
pause or period of slackening.
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Examples
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Google has been maintaining its leadership role very well without any kind of letup!
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Iowa coach Todd Lickliter called it a "letup" by Michigan State.
HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2010
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Iowa coach Todd Lickliter called it a "letup" by Michigan State.
HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News 2010
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But for many admissions offices, there appears to have been no letup.
admissions 2010
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There is no letup in violence in Afghanistan where a suicide bomber has killed at least 30 people.
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To coin a Spanish phrase, Barcelona played sin prisa pero sin pausa: with no haste, but with no letup either.
Barcelona 2-0 Valencia (3-1 agg) | Copa del Rey semi-final match report 2012
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Abortion rights have been under attack without any letup since the initial SCOTUS ruling.
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It could halt such attacks, but some analysts have warned that any letup in the bombing could quickly backfire.
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There was no sign of a letup in a security crackdown that started on the eve of Ramadan, 11 days ago.
Syrians plan 'no kneeling' day of demonstrations against killings 2011
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There is no letup in violence in Afghanistan where a suicide bomber has killed at least 30 people.
Related Words
synonyms (142)
Words with the same meaning
- abatement
- abeyance
- abridgment
- allayment
- alleviation
- arrest
- assuagement
- attenuation
- blunting
- breach
- break
- breath
- breather
- breathing place
- breathing space
- breathing spell
- breathing time
- caesura
- calming
- cease-fire
- cessation
- check
- cigarette break
- cocktail hour
- coffee break
- contraction
- dampening
- damping
- day off
- deadening
- deceleration
- decrease
- decrement
- decrescence
- deduction
- deflation
- delay
- demulsion
- depreciation
- depression
- detention
- diminishment
- diminution
- downtime
- drag
- drop
- dulcification
- dulling
- dying
- dying off
- ease-off
- ease-up
- easing
- enforced respite
- extenuation
- fade-out
- falling-off
- fissure
- flagging
- gap
- half time
- half-time intermission
- halt
- happy hour
- hesitation
- hiatus
- holdup
- holiday
- hushing
- interim
- interlude
- intermezzo
- intermission
- intermittence
- interregnum
- interruption
- interval
- lacuna
- lag
- languishment
- lapse
- layoff
- leniency
- lessening
- letdown
- lightening
- loosening
- lowering
- lull
- lulling
- miniaturization
- minus acceleration
- mitigation
- modulation
- mollification
- obstruction
- off-time
- pacification
- palliation
- pause
- plateau
- point of repose
- quiet spell
- quietening
- quieting
- recess
- reduction
- relaxation
- relief
- remission
- respite
- rest
- resting point
- retardation
- retardment
- sagging
- scaling down
- setback
- simplicity
- slack-up
- slackening
- slowdown
- slowing
- slowing down
- slowup
- softening
- soothing
- spell
- stand-down
- stay
- subduement
- subtraction
- surcease
- suspension
- tea break
- tempering
- time off
- time out
- tranquilization
- truce
- vacation
- weakening
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