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Let up meaning

Let up is a phrasal verb with 2 meanings. One of them is for bad weather, pressure, or another unpleasant condition to stop or improve.

Past simple
let up
Past participle
let up
-ing form
letting up

What let up means

become less severeB2informal

For bad weather, pressure, or another unpleasant condition to stop or improve

The rain showed no sign of letting up.

1 more meaning of let up is in the Retite app, with an example and a translation into your language.

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Similar phrasal verbs

With let: let down, let in, let someone in on something, let something into something, let off, let on, let out, let yourself in for.

With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.

Common questions

What does let up mean?

It has 2 meanings. One of them is for bad weather, pressure, or another unpleasant condition to stop or improve. The other one, with an example and a translation into your language, is in the Retite app.

What is the past tense of let up?

Let up, which is also its past participle.

Meanings and examples are written by Retite. The meanings follow Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Levels are based on the CEFR-J Wordlist and set by Retite.

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