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relentsverbpresent tense third-person singular 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 blinks, bows, budges, capitulates, concedes, gives in, knuckles under, quits, submits, succumbs, surrenders, yields acquiescesdefers says uncle, throws in the towel(also throws in the sponge) resists contends, fights, holds offbattles, breasts, combats, confronts, counters, defies, faces, meets, objects, opposes, repelsthwarts, withstands 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 abates, declines, decreases, de-escalates, dies (away or down or out), diminishes, drains (away), drops (off), dwindles, eases, ebbs, falls, falls away, lessens, lets up, lowers, moderates, palls, phases down, ratchets (down)also rachets (down), recedes, remits, shrinks, subsides, tapers, tapers off, wanes compresses, condenses, constricts, contractsevaporates, fades (away), fritters (away), gives out, melts (away), peters (out), tails (off), vanishesslackens, slows (down)alleviates, relaxesflags, sinks, weakenscaves (in), collapses, deflates accumulates, balloons, builds, burgeons(also bourgeons), enlarges, escalates, expands, grows, increases, intensifies, mounts, mushrooms, picks up, rises, snowballs, soars, swells, waxes appears, emerges, shows upblows up, distends, elongates, lengthens |