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de-escalate has 2 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is escalate.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
diminish in size, scope, or intensity
“The war of words between them de-escalated with time”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for de-escalate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.