letupとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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.

別の表記

• let-up

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• -tuple, plute, tuple

動詞

let up (third-person singular simple present lets up, present participle letting up, simple past and past participle let up)

1. (intransitive) To cease or stop.

   Synonyms: leave off, let off

   The rain shows no sign of letting up.

   • 2021, Taylor Swift, “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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名詞

let-up (plural let-ups)

1. Alternative form of letup.

   It rained for a week with no let-up.

   • 1960 April, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 268:

     […] the uphill minimum speeds of 66 m.p.h. at Tring, 68 at Roade and 72 at Kilsby Tunnel, no less than the maximum of 85 m.p.h. near Cheddington and of 79 on the level at Weedon, clearly indicated that there was no let-up anywhere.

   • 2022 January 26, Tom Allett, “A gateway to freight growth”, in RAIL, number 949, page 48:

     There's no let-up in the ship-bound sector.

参照

• “let-up”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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• -tuple, plute, tuple