Synonyms and Antonyms of relenting
1
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
contending, fighting, holding off
battling, breasting, combating (or combatting), confronting, countering, defying, facing, meeting, objecting, opposing, repelling
thwarting, withstanding
2
to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually
- the 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, contracting
evaporating, fading (away), frittering (away), giving out, melting (away), petering (out), tailing (off), vanishing
slackening, slowing (down)
alleviating, relaxing
flagging, sinking, weakening
caving (in), collapsing, deflating
accumulating, ballooning, building, burgeoning (also bourgeoning), enlarging, escalating, expanding, growing, increasing, intensifying, mounting, mushrooming, picking up, rising, snowballing, soaring, swelling, waxing
