relenting
Meaning of relenting
- abandon or mitigate a severe or harsh attitude, especially by finally yielding to a request.
she was going to refuse his request, but relented
late Middle English (in the sense ‘dissolve, melt’): based on Latin re- ‘back’ + lentare ‘to bend’ (from lentus ‘flexible’).
Information about relenting
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of relenting is: relentings.
- Languages in which relenting is used:
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Hyphenation of relenting
re-lent-ing
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- relenting is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
relenting synonyms
Meaning cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; yield:
Meaning give way to arguments, demands, or pressure:
Meaning agree to a demand, request, or treaty:
Meaning accept something reluctantly but without protest:
Meaning make or become soft or softer:
Meaning make or become liquefied by heat:
Meaning make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength:
Meaning make or become straight from a bent or twisted form or position:
relenting antonyms
Meaning make or become hard or harder:
Words that rhyme with relenting
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