Synonyms and related words :
abatement, abeyance, abridgment, allayment, alleviation, arrest, assuagement, attenuation, blunting, breach, break, breath, breather, breathing place, breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, caesura, calming, cease-fire, cessation, check, cigarette break, cocktail hour, coffee break, contraction, dampening, damping, day off, deadening, deceleration, decrease, decrement, decrescence, deduction, deflation, delay, demulsion, depreciation, depression, detention, diminishment, diminution, downtime, drag, drop, dulcification, dulling, dying, dying off, ease-off, ease-up, easing, enforced respite, extenuation, fade-out, falling-off, fissure, flagging, gap, half time, half-time intermission, halt, happy hour, hesitation, hiatus, holdup, holiday, hushing, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interruption, interval, lacuna, lag, languishment, lapse, layoff, leniency, lessening, letdown, lightening, loosening, lowering, lull, lulling, miniaturization, minus acceleration, mitigation, modulation, mollification, obstruction, off-time, pacification, palliation, pause, plateau, point of repose, quiet spell, quietening, quieting, recess, reduction, relaxation, relief, remission, respite, rest, resting point, retardation, retardment, sagging, scaling down, setback, simplicity, slack-up, slackening, slowdown, slowing, slowing down, slowup, softening, soothing, spell, stand-down, stay, subduement, subtraction, surcease, suspension, tea break, tempering, time off, time out, tranquilization, truce, vacation, weakening