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Exact Match:

letup

a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise"

Synonyms:

• 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