de-escalating
present participle ofde-escalate
de-escalate
verb[IorT]
uk/ˌdiːˈes.kə.leɪt/us/ˌdiːˈes.kə.leɪt/to (causeto)becomelessdangerousordifficult:
Thegovernmenthas taken thesemeasuresin anattemptto de-escalate theconflict.
There aresignsthat theconfrontationisbeginningto de-escalate.
Synonym
wind(something)down
Opposite
escalate
Becoming and making less strong
- abate
- abatement
- adulterate
- adulterated
- adulteration
- emasculation
- enervate
- enervating
- enfeeble
- enfeebled
- fade
- hedge
- melt
- relieve
- sink
- totter
- tottering
- turn to jellyidiom
- wane
- waste away
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In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
They are ready to join in eitherde-escalatingor ceasing hostilities.
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Thede-escalatingof wages has become the latest demand.
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It particularly will not do if we are talking about it as a policy forde-escalatingwage settlements.
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In pursuit of all this, it would help to show thatde-escalatingviolence produces a peace dividend.
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We are slowlyde-escalatinghuge and unjustified wage claims, which more than anything else have resulted in the high unemployment and high prices.
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We should be saying that we want a nonproliferation treaty and the way to get that is to look atde-escalatingnuclear arms, not increasing them.
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Success, therefore, inde-escalatingthe level of wage settlements against the background of a firm control of demand is our short-term policy.
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The only practical way ofde-escalatingthe present inflationary wage demands is to apply the same rule to each of them.
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The balance between defeating violence with force and defusing orde-escalatingthe situation is a delicate one and our response must be, and is, flexible.
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That would have been a step towardsde-escalatingthis terrible possibility.
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There is an argument forde-escalatingthe general level of aid to mobile projects.
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Is there any way ofde-escalatingthis situation?
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But, if we arede-escalatingstringent powers, the speed at which it is done and the timing of it can be the essence of the whole argument.
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After a long and protracted effort, the operation was eventually successful in saving many lives, as well as inde-escalatingthe high-intensity conflict into low-level, local skirmishes.
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