Meaning of de-escalate | Babel Free

Definitions

To decrease in intensity or magnitude.

ambitransitive

Equivalents

Examples

“We asked authors to consider two scenarios imaginable in the next five years. In the first scenario, a minor skirmish escalated into a multiweek maritime blockade of Taiwan by China. Although several dozen members of the Chinese and Taiwanese military were killed, U.S. intervention eventually forced China to de-escalate.”

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