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relentedverbpast tense of relent 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 blinked, bowed, budged, capitulated, conceded, gave in, knuckled under, quit(also quitted), submitted, succumbed, surrendered, yielded acquiesceddeferred said uncle, threw in the towel(also threw in the sponge) resisted contended, fought, held offbattled, breasted, combated(or combatted), confronted, countered, defied, faced, met, objected, opposed, repelledthwarted, withstood 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 abated, declined, decreased, de-escalated, died (away or down or out), diminished, drained (away), dropped (off), dwindled, eased, ebbed, fell, fell away, lessened, let up, lowered, moderated, palled, phased down, ratcheted (down)also racheted (down), receded, remitted, shrank(or shrunk), subsided, tapered, tapered off, waned compressed, condensed, constricted, contractedevaporated, faded (away), frittered (away), gave out, melted (away), petered (out), tailed (off), vanishedslackened, slowed (down)alleviated, relaxedflagged, sank(or sunk), weakenedcaved (in), collapsed, deflated accumulated, ballooned, built, burgeoned(also bourgeoned), enlarged, escalated, expanded, grew, increased, intensified, mounted, mushroomed, picked up, rose, snowballed, soared, swelled, waxed appeared, emerged, showed upblew up, distended, elongated, lengthened |