to deescalate
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4.8
- verb
- /diːˈɛskəˌleɪt/
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desescalar
- In order to promote peace, both leaders pledged to deescalate tensions and engage in dialogue.
- deescalate the situation
- ways to deescalate
And it helps me so much to deescalate things.
- And it helps me so much to deescalate things.
- And it, it's hard, especially when, but when you just kind of deescalate, you just, you keep the, the family dinner going.
- And I'm going to let you have whatever reaction you have and you're going to stay calm and not back down and deescalate or try to form an understanding.
- You know, sexual harassment is just a ubiquitous experience in women's lives that we have been socialized to deescalate and to deal with.
- You know, he's a big time drug dealer and he's acting wild and violating all the the club policies and you have to deescalate the situation.
- OK, does deescalate not mean what I think it means?
- That's called escalate to deescalate like pound the you know what out of them to get them to stop.
Examples
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Obama's goal will likely be to open the doors to the settlement or détente of territorial issues with Japan, while at the same time drawing a firm line aimed at deescalating regional tensions.
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The third-party candidate tries to deescalate the situation with police by asking if the man is free to go, to which the officer implied that he wanted the man to leave.
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We need people who deescalate, not those people who cause more problems.
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We need Japan to see we're trying to deescalate.
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I'm also good at reading people and can deescalate a lot of conflicts.
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So how do we find a way to deescalate so that fight doesn't happen?
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Couples in strong marriages have a way of deescalating tension during conflict; they have a way of repairing.
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And that's why we say, 'please can we have some restraint, can we deescalate?' because that is the only way to resolve this crisis," Gunneness told RT.
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The mediator's goal was to deescalate the conflict between the two groups through open communication.
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To prevent further violence, the police are trying to deescalate the situation before it gets out of hand.
Synonyms
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5.8
Make something less harmful or painful
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4.5
Make a tense or dangerous situation calmer
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6.3
To bring peace to a place after fighting, often by using force
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5.7
Reduce the strength of feelings or public anger
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4.5
To make a situation less tense by calming people
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7.9
To make a threat or criticism less powerful
To make a conflict or tense situation less dangerous and calmer
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Etymology
The word deescalate combines the prefix de- meaning 'down' and escalate, which means 'to climb' and is like the word escalator. So to deescalate is to 'bring down' the level of tension or danger and make a situation less intense.