: a lessening of effort, activity, or intensity
let up; letting up; lets up
2
: to become less severe
—used with on
Synonyms
Examples of letup in a Sentence
Noun
the downpour continued for hours without letup
Verb
the rain let up just as we reached the house
the windmill slowed down as the wind let up
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Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 June 2024
Wind and low visibility added to the impediments as the resort, where the 1960 Winter Olympics were held, reported 6 feet of snow over three days, with no letup.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2024
The administration’s diplomatic strategy to date has amounted to little more than a list of don’ts: don’t reward talks, don’t let up on sanctions, don’t make the mistakes of past administrations.
—Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2018
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Noun
No letup from extreme heat for much of the eastern U.S.
There will be no letup from the sweltering heat wave frazzling much of the eastern United States today, with tens of millions of people under heat warnings.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 June 2024
Wind and low visibility added to the impediments as the resort, where the 1960 Winter Olympics were held, reported 6 feet of snow over three days, with no letup.
—Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
Verb
But Hurley apparently knows, too, that his team will not let up, but take his brash talk the proper way.
—Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2024
The administration’s diplomatic strategy to date has amounted to little more than a list of don’ts: don’t reward talks, don’t let up on sanctions, don’t make the mistakes of past administrations.
—Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2018
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“Letup.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/letup. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
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