de-escalation

1. 1.

   (war) a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war)

   Broaderdecrease

   war

Questions about de-escalation

What does de-escalation mean?

de-escalation means "(war) a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war)".

How many syllables are in de-escalation?

de-escalation has 5 syllables and divides as de--e-sca-la-tion under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is de-escalation a common word?

de-escalation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.