ease up

Strongest matches

• arrange
• collect
• contain

Strong matches

• adjust
• allay
• appease
• assuage
• becalm
• check
• comfort
• console
• control
• cool
• ease
• lessen
• lull
• mitigate
• moderate
• modulate
• pacify
• placate
• quell
• quiet
• reconcile
• regulate
• rein
• relax
• repress
• resolve
• restrain
• settle
• slacken
• smother
• soften
• solace
• soothe
• still
• suppress
• temper
• tranquilize

Weak matches

• balm
• hold in
• let up
• re-collect
• simmer down
• tune down

Weak matches

• abate
• cease
• decrease
• die down
• die out
• diminish
• ease
• ease off
• ebb
• fall
• moderate
• release
• relent
• slacken
• slow down
• stop
• subside
• wane

Strongest match

• defer

Strong matches

• abate
• absolve
• alleviate
• amnesty
• cancel
• condone
• decrease
• delay
• desist
• diminish
• dwindle
• excuse
• exonerate
• forbear
• forgive
• halt
• intermit
• mitigate
• moderate
• modify
• modulate
• pardon
• prorogue
• reduce
• relax
• release
• repeal
• reprieve
• rescind
• respite
• shelve
• sink
• slack
• slacken
• soften
• stay
• suspend
• wane
• weaken

Weak matches

• fall away
• hold off
• hold up
• put off

Strongest matches

• breathe
• lean
• lie down
• relax
• sit down
• stretch out

Strong matches

• doze
• dream
• drowse
• idle
• laze
• loaf
• loll
• lounge
• nap
• nod
• recline
• repose
• slack
• slacken
• slumber
• snooze
• spell
• unbend
• unlax
• unwind

Weak matches

• be at ease
• be comfortable
• compose oneself
• ease off
• let down
• let up
• lie by
• lie still
• put feet up
• refresh oneself
• slack off
• take a break
• take a nap
• take five
• take it easy
• take life easy
• take ten
• take time out
• wind down

Strongest matches

• abate
• curb
• curtail
• decelerate
• decrease
• diminish
• hinder
• impede
• lag
• lessen
• moderate
• reduce
• relax
• retard
• slacken
• stall
• temper

Strong matches

• brake
• check
• choke
• detain
• loiter
• mire
• postpone
• procrastinate
• qualify
• quiet
• reef
• regulate
• stunt

Weak matches

• anchor it
• back-water
• bog down
• cut back
• cut down
• ease off
• embog
• hit the brakes
• hold back
• hold up
• keep waiting
• let down flaps
• lose speed
• lose steam
• reduce speed
• rein in
• set back
• wind down

Strongest matches

• abate
• decline
• decrease
• depress
• dilute
• diminish
• dwindle
• halt
• impair
• lessen
• lower
• reduce
• sap
• soften
• undermine
• wane

Strong matches

• adulterate
• crumble
• cut
• debase
• debilitate
• devitalize
• droop
• enervate
• exhaust
• fade
• fail
• faint
• flag
• impoverish
• invalidate
• languish
• limp
• lose
• minimize
• mitigate
• moderate
• relapse
• relax
• temper
• thin
• tire
• totter
• tremble
• vitiate
• wilt

Weak matches

• break up
• give way
• lose spirit
• slow down
• thin out
• water down