popustíti (ceno) to reduce, to rebate, to make an allowance for, to lower (a price), to deduct, to allow (ali to grant, to make) a reduction (ali concession), to lower one's figure; (bolečina, vročica) to pass off, to ease, to abate; (marljivost) to cool down, to relax, to abate, to fail, to flag; (sili) to yield, to knuckle under (ali down); (mraz) to abate; (napetost) to ease, arhaično to slake off; (veter) to abate, to subside, to calm; (struno, žico) to slacken (and lower the pitch of) a string
 popustíti komu to indulge someone
 ne popustíti (= odbiti) to persist in, to insist on, not to yield one iota, not to relent, not to remit a point
 diciplina je popustila discipline has slackened (ali has weakened)
 učenec je popustil v svoji marljivosti the pupil has been slacking
 popustíti v ceni to make a reduction in the price
 cene so popustile the prices have dropped (ali have come down)
 nadzorstvo je popustilo control has been relaxed
 nič ne popustíti v svojih zahtevah not to abate one iota of one's pretensions
 od naših zahtev ne moremo popustíti we can abate none of our demands
 popustíti strastem to give way to one's passions
 popustíti vrv to slacken (ali to loosen) a rope