to remit

Examples

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• During the next 2 months, the ataxia remitted completely without sequelae.

  Academic text (2012)

• Their mother had received her chemotherapy courses; her myeloma had remitted for five years.

  Academic text (1993)

• Symptoms wax and wane and even remit in some children for periods long enough to suggest total remission.

  Academic text (1990)

• It is possible that trauma-related physical symptoms from the hurricanes cannot be expected to remit in one to two sessions.

  Academic text (2009)

• Population-based studies have shown that more people are living for longer with secondary breast cancer, and increasingly it is thought of as a chronic, relapsing, and remitting illness.

  Academic text (2014)

• The Greek Asclepian physicians, a direct feed into modern medicine, developed "incubation sleep" temples for healing serious disorders that did not remit even with fairly advanced medical practices.

  Academic text (1994)

• Biogen's BG-12 is also only seeking approval as a relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis therapy; the other key drugs in the MS world are targeting the other form too.

  Blog text (29)

• Morphine had no effect; it wasn't until I got an injection of Toradol (sp?) that the pain remitted enough for me to go home.

  Blog text (14)

• Furthermore, symptoms from a traumatic event can still be present after many years and may not spontaneously remit (Kessler, Sonnega, Bromet, Hughes, & Nelson, 1995).

  Academic text (2009)

• After several weeks, the pain from her injury started to remit considerably.

Synonyms

R

to reduce

vsto remit

162 2.1

To make something weaker or in a worse state

focuses on lowering status or power rather than easing severity or tension

E

to ease up

vsto remit

57 3.7

To make something less strong or strict

applies to lowering tension or firmness rather than cutting pressure or strictness

L

to lessen

vsto remit

34 2.8

To make something smaller in amount or strength

focuses more on easing tension or firmness rather than mere amount reduction

R

to recede

vsto remit

29 4.8

To move back or become less strong

describes easing tension or firmness rather than physically moving away

A

to abate

vsto remit

23 6.8

To become less strong or severe and to make something do the same

also covers reducing tension or firmness as well as severity

S

to slacken

vsto remit

1 5.5

Become or make less tight, like a rope

also covers reducing severity and overall intensity rather than only physical looseness

D

to de-escalate

vsto remit

5.6

To make a conflict or tense situation less dangerous and calmer

is used for reducing tension in general situations, not only conflicts

Antonyms

I

to intensify

110 4.0

Make something stronger or more intense

A

to aggravate

73 4.6

Make a problem or health condition worse

How Reduced

to subside

47 4.8

to abate

23 6.8

to remit

• Specialized

1 7.3

to lessen

34 2.8

to ease

305 2.1

to moderate

34 4.4

Surface Forms

Etymology