letup

See also: let up and let-up

English

Etymology

Deverbal from let up.

Noun

letup (plural letups)

1. A pause or period of slackening.

   without letup

   It rained without letup for many hours.

   We waited for a letup in the rain, then we ran home before it started again.

Alternative forms

• let-up

Translations

a pause or period of slackening

• Bulgarian: отслабване (bg) n (otslabvane), облекчение (bg) n (oblekčenie)
• German: Nachlassen (de) n
• Hungarian: lankadás (hu), enyhülés (hu), megállás (hu), szünet (hu)
• Japanese: 休み (ja) (yasumi), 減少 (ja) (genshou), 減速 (ja) (gensoku)
• Russian: ослабле́ние (ru) n (oslablénije)

Anagrams

• -tuple, plute, tuple