relent
Soften one's stance
To relent is to soften in attitude or determination, yielding after resistance: She finally relented and let the kids stay up late.
Often implies abandoning a hard stance under pressure or persuasion.
Weather or pain that relents eases up: The rain showed no sign of relenting.
The word suggests giving way reluctantly rather than enthusiastically.
Cease resistance, concede
- caveUnderground hollow in rock
- capitulateYield under pressure
- acquiesceSubmit without protest
- submitPresent for consideration
concede · succumb · surrender · back down · budge · bend · fold · comply
Cease to blame
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- leniencyMildness in punishment
- compassionConcern for others' distress
mercy · grace · reprieve · amnesty · absolution · commutation · spare · exonerate
ease
Lack of strain
slacken · let up · moderate · decrease · wane · ebb · taper · die down · ease up · lighten
give in
Cease resistance, concede
- caveUnderground hollow in rock
- capitulateYield under pressure
- acquiesceSubmit without protest
submit · concede · succumb · surrender · back down · budge · bend · fold · comply · defer
thaw
Return to liquid
gentle · unbend · loosen · ease · moderate · temper · mollify · placate · appease · soothe
forgive
Cease to blame
- pardonOfficial release from punishment
- clemencyMerciful treatment of offenders
- leniencyMildness in punishment
compassion · mercy · grace · reprieve · amnesty · absolution · commutation · spare · exonerate · forbearance
- calmingcalm, calm down, soothe, relax, pacify
- conformityconformity, conforming, conform, conformist, conformism
- diminishingabate, decrease, diminish, dwindle, ebb
- surrendersurrender, surrenders, surrendering, I surrender, capitulate
- reversalsreverse, undo, revert, overturn, flip
- endurancestamina, endure, perseverance, persistence, staying power
relentpersist
Continue firmly onward
stand firm · dig in · hold firm · hold out · resist
relentless, unrelenting, relentlessly, relentlessness, relenting, relented, relents, unrelentingly