0 present participle of de-escalate --
1 to (cause to) become less dangerous or difficult: --
There are signs that the confrontation is beginning to de-escalate.
The government has taken these measures in an attempt to de-escalate the conflict.
After a long and protracted effort, the operation was eventually successful in saving many lives, as well as in de-escalating the high-intensity conflict into low-level, local skirmishes.
But, if we are de-escalating stringent powers, the speed at which it is done and the timing of it can be the essence of the whole argument.
Is there any way of de-escalating this situation?
There is an argument for de-escalating the general level of aid to mobile projects.
That would have been a step towards de-escalating this terrible possibility.
The balance between defeating violence with force and defusing or de-escalating the situation is a delicate one and our response must be, and is, flexible.
The only practical way of de-escalating the present inflationary wage demands is to apply the same rule to each of them.
Success, therefore, in de-escalating the level of wage settlements against the background of a firm control of demand is our short-term policy.
