Crossword clues for letup
letup
- Give some slack
- Lessen in intensity
- Slow down, as rainfall
- Baseball pitch
- Stop, as rain
- Gradual reduction
- Abate into a drizzle
- Reduce tension
- Rain more gently
- Subside to a drizzle
- Stop running so hard
- Ease back
- Abate, as rain
- Take a break, and a hint to this puzzle's theme
- Subside, as rainfall
- Stop working so hard
- Stop pushing
- Slacken off, as rainfall
- Run slower
- Go easier
- Ease off, as rain
- Diminish, as rainfall
- Begin to subside
- Become less severe, like rainfall: 2 wds
- Abate as rainfall
- A slackening
- Abate, as rainfall
- Relax one's efforts
- Slacken off or allow to surface
- Lull
- Slowdown
- Stop working so hard: 2 wds
- Stop pushing so hard
- Abatement
- Pause
- A pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished
- Cessation
- Ease off: 2 wds
- Slackening; abatement
- Surcease
- Wane
- Eased
- Release, as in wrestling
- Stop firsts from LSE, exposing those using phones
- Pause in output elsewhere viewed as regressive
- Distracted lute player's first to stop
- Slack off
- Tail off
- Back off a bit
- Become less intense
- Be a slacker
Wiktionary
letup
n. A pause or period of slackening.
WordNet
letup
n. a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise" [syn: lull]
Usage examples of "letup".
Van Hoek cursed almost without letup, and Jack reflected that, for an officer, nothing could be more humiliating than to face backwards, and never see where you were headed.
From his post in the Provincial Building above the Arnhem bridge, Charles Labouch@ere saw no letup in the flood of vehicles, troops and Nazi sympathizers streaming across the bridge.
Both starboard peashooters were firing without letup, throwing six hundred rounds a minute into an almost solid mass of Mongol troops.