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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
let up

"cessation," 1837, from verbal phrase let up "cease, stop" (1787). In Old English the phrase meant "to put ashore."

Wiktionary
let up

vb. (context intransitive of something intense English) to lessen

WordNet
let up

  1. v. become less in amount or intensity; "The storm abated"; "The rain let up after a few hours" [syn: abate, slack off, slack, die away]

  2. reduce pressure or intensity; "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down" [syn: ease up, ease off]

Usage examples of "let up".

The war-weary British decided to forego territorial demands, and the United States, relieved to escape without major losses, let up on its demand that Britain recognize American neutral rights.

Simplistic or no, a game designed to let up to ten players on a side control over six hundred ships was more complicated than the other games by several orders of magnitude, and he’.

Simplistic or no, a game designed to let up to ten players on a side control over six hundred ships was more complicated than the other games by several orders of magnitude, and he'd been confident that the time required to put in the fix would eat up his free time quite nicely.

Then it let up, and he knew the needle had penetrated to the soft inside of his bone.

After a long time the rain let up, but the clouds stayed, and the lightning kept whimpering, and by and by a flash showed us a black thing ahead, floating, and we made for it.

Duffy was still cavorting and barking, and did not let up all the way back to the house.

The welcome-home party was in its twelfth or thirteenth hour, but it hadn't let up.

Deeth buckled down, subjected himself to an intense self-discipline, did not let up till the Norbon had recovered from the Amon-Ra disaster.

He and Murgatroyd gulped together when he let up the button again and all space whirled and nausea hit as before.