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relentverb to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)the supervisor finally relented in the face of the petition, and allowed employees to take longer lunch breaks blink, bow, budge, capitulate, concede, give in, knuckle under, quit, submit, succumb, surrender, yield acquiescedefer say uncle, throw in the towel(also throw in the sponge) resist contend, fight, hold offbattle, breast, combat, confront, counter, defy, face, meet, object, oppose, repelthwart, withstand to grow less in scope or intensity especially graduallythe fury of the storm relented, and the next day the sun finally broke through the clouds abate, de-escalate, decline, decrease, die (away or down or out), diminish, drain (away), drop (off), dwindle, ease, ebb, fall, fall away, lessen, let up, lower, moderate, pall, phase down, ratchet (down)also rachet (down), recede, remit, shrink, subside, taper, taper off, wane compress, condense, constrict, contractevaporate, fade (away), fritter (away), give out, melt (away), peter (out), tail (off), vanishslacken, slow (down)alleviate, relaxflag, sink, weakencave (in), collapse, deflate accumulate, balloon, build, burgeon(also bourgeon), enlarge, escalate, expand, grow, increase, intensify, mount, mushroom, pick up, rise, snowball, soar, swell, wax appear, emerge, show upblow up, distend, elongate, lengthen yield, submit, capitulate, succumb, relent, defer mean to give way to someone or something that one can no longer resist.yield may apply to any sort or degree of giving way before force, argument, persuasion, or entreaty.yields too easily in any argument submit suggests full surrendering after resistance or conflict to the will or control of another.a repentant sinner vowing to submit to the will of God capitulate stresses the fact of ending all resistance and may imply either a coming to terms (as with an adversary) or hopelessness in the face of an irresistible opposing force.officials capitulated to the protesters' demands succumb implies weakness and helplessness to the one that gives way or an overwhelming power to the opposing force.a stage actor succumbing to the lure of Hollywood relent implies a yielding through pity or mercy by one who holds the upper hand.finally relented and let the children stay up late defer implies a voluntary yielding or submitting out of respect or reverence for or deference and affection toward another.I defer to your expertise in these matters in the 15th century |