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ease up

DEFINITIONS OF: ease up

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v reduce pressure or intensity

Synonyms:
ease off, let up
Type of:
alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

v become less intense

Synonyms:
ease off, flag, slacken off
Type of:
decrease, diminish, fall, lessen
decrease in size, extent, or range

v move in order to make room for someone for something

Synonyms:
give, give way, move over, yield
abandon, give up
stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims
Type of:
move
move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
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