"de-escalate" meaning in English

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        "To decrease in intensity or magnitude."
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          "code": "ca",
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          "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
          "word": "desescalar"
        },
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          "code": "el",
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          "roman": "apoklimakóno",
          "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
          "word": "αποκλιμακώνω"
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          "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
          "word": "desescalar"
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          "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
          "word": "desescalar"
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          "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
          "word": "trappa ned"
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          "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
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      "code": "ca",
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      "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
      "word": "desescalar"
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      "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
      "word": "desescalar"
    },
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      "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
      "word": "desescalar"
    },
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      "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
      "word": "trappa ned"
    },
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      "sense": "to decrease in intensity or magnitude",
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