let up
informal— phrasal verb with let uk/let/us/let/verb present participle letting, past tense and past participle let
(IMPROVE)
If bad weather or an unpleasant situation lets up, it stops or improves:
When the rain lets up we'll go for a walk.
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Coming to an end
- come off
- come off sth
- come out
- come to a full stop idiom
- come to a head idiom
- come to sth
- come to the end of the road idiom
- dry up
- fizzle
- go out (of) the window idiom
- head
- land
- land up
- lapse
- let
- peter
- peter out
- road
- run
- wind up
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(STOP)
to stop doing something that you have been doing continuously or in a determined way:
Neil spent the entire evening moaning about his job - he just wouldn't let up.
The police insist that they are not letting up on their campaign against drugs.
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Stop having or doing something
- abdicate
- bail out
- bandh
- break with sth
- butt out
- cede
- drop
- fly
- forwent
- ghost
- give (sth) up
- give sb up
- give sth up as a bad job idiom
- give up on sb/sth
- grow
- subjugate
- take a back seat idiom
- throw (sth) up
- throw in the towel idiom 1
- towel
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