ease up
Verb
Meaning
reduce pressure or intensity
become less intense
move in order to make room for someone for something
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Examples
he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down
The park gave way to a supermarket
`Move over,' he told the crowd
Faced with this awful prospect, will he urge Premier Gladys to ease up on any lockdown in the way he repeatedly did to Victoria during its second lockdown?
Credit goes again here to the new car’s much more modern architecture: Its stiffer body gave engineers more room to let the tires and springs ease up.
However, Klein knew when to ease up when, for example, he was faced with a mass walkout by health support workers and nurses in 1995.