let up
See also: letup and let-up
English
Verb
let up (third-person singular simple present lets up, present participle letting up, simple past and past participle let up)
- (intransitive, of something intense) To cease or stop.
- The rain shows no sign of letting up.
- (intransitive) To cease or stop (doing something intense).
- 2021, Taylor Swift (lyrics and music), “No Body, No Crime”, in evermore, performed by Taylor Swift and HAIM:
- I think he did it but I just can't prove it / No, no body, no crime / But I ain't letting up until the day I die
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Anagrams
- -tuple, plute, tuple