Let up
Let up verb - To come to an end.
Both terms in one sentence
- When the attack starts, the screen basically becomes hundreds of straight lines sprouting from every single ship to impact on the giant fortress, and it doesn't let up until, once again, the Macross flies inside to release Hikaru's Super Valkyrie into its bowels.
Source: Alpha Strike - This still applies (though not nearly as much) in the bugfixed release, though in the original version the way most people played (quicksaving and quickloading) meant that the game never let up, as opposed to dropping difficulty slightly each load from an autosave point.
Source: Dynamic Difficulty
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Release and Let up. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/let_up/release
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