Definition of "deescalate" []

• To decrease in intensity or magnitude. (verb)

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• "However, if one is looking for “hope” fully, a “yes we can” response to rebuilding America, perhaps we can seek to not * escalate* but to * deescalate* areas of disagreement."
• "When it happens, "it is often because there has been a lack of the appropriate tools to deescalate the situation," she said."
• "But the demand that Iran suspend the enrichment of nuclear material was never part of the fuel swap deal, and indeed the whole point of the fuel swap deal was to deescalate tensions around Iran's growing stockpile of enriched uranium without recourse to the politically unachievable demand that Iran suspend enrichment of uranium."