| 例句 |
relentingverbpresent participle 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 blinking, bowing, budging, capitulating, conceding, giving in, knuckling under, quitting, submitting, succumbing, surrendering, yielding acquiescingdeferring saying uncle, throwing in the towel(also throwing in the sponge) resisting contending, fighting, holding offbattling, breasting, combating(or combatting), confronting, countering, defying, facing, meeting, objecting, opposing, repellingthwarting, withstanding 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 abating, declining, decreasing, de-escalating, diminishing, draining (away), dropping (off), dwindling, dying (away or down or out), easing, ebbing, falling, falling away, lessening, letting up, lowering, moderating, palling, phasing down, ratcheting (down)also racheting (down), receding, remitting, shrinking, subsiding, tapering, tapering off, waning compressing, condensing, constricting, contractingevaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishingslackening, slowing (down)alleviating, relaxingflagging, sinking, weakeningcaving (in), collapsing, deflating accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning(also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing appearing, emerging, showing upblowing up, distending, elongating, lengthening |