relenting
present participle ofrelent
relent
verb[I]
uk/rɪˈlent/us/rɪˈlent/toactin a lesssevereway towards someone andallowsomething that you hadrefusedtoallowbefore:
Herparentseventuallyrelented andlether go to theparty.
Thesecurityguardrelented andletthem through.
Synonyms
soften
yield
Accepting & agreeing reluctantly
- accede tosomething
- acceptance
- acquiescence
- be resigned tosomethingidiom
- bend tosomething
- bow
- bow down tosomeone
- cave in
- concede
- crack
- like it or lump itidiom
- resignyourselftosomething
- resignation
- resigned
- resignedly
- resort tosomething
- settle forsomething
- shoulder
- tolerate
- tradesomethingoff
Examplesofrelenting
relenting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Relentingto him, they let him descend once more.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The resumption began in 1901 and took over 100 years to complete, with the last remaining freehold residentrelentingin 2007.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This was a practice that he continued throughout his seventies,relentingonly in his early eighties because of his failing eyesight.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Relentingto the demands of majority of the people, the friars later agreed to give the leaders bigger participation in running their respective districts.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Notrelenting, he returns the puma to nature.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Crop failures and production shortfalls are dragging down the standard of living, with no sign ofrelenting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He's driven by arelentingenergy that constantly questions the world around him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Their battles continued for forty years, with neither brotherrelenting.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Her condition worsened, and her parents became alarmed, finallyrelentingand administering the prescribed medicine.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.When the senate refused their demand, the tribunes prevented the election of annual magistrates for five years, beforerelentingand permitting the election of consular tribunes from 370 to 367.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It knows norelentingor hesitation in its purposes; it stops not in its march of aggression, and leaves us no room to hope for cessation or for pause.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Children and adolescents accommodate for 85% of those diagnosed, due to rapid growth spurts occurring at puberty when spinal development is mostrelentingto genetic and environmental influences.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Then follows a long argument on love, of the kind that had not yet passed out of fashion; and, on therelentingof his mistress, the lover wakes.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Elizabeth,relenting, urges him to join her and forgives him.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Smith perished, neverrelentingin his determined effort against the enemy.
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- written complaint
- written consent
- written constitution
- written contract
- written correspondence
- written declaration
- written description
- written discourse
- written document
- written documentation
- written-down value
- written-down-value
- written essay
- written essay
- written exam
- written explanation
- written expression
- written feedback
- written form
- written format
- written guarantee
- written input
- written instruction
- written in the stars
- written-in-the-stars