Word Meanings - RELENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day,

Additional info about word: RELENT

1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day, And earth, relenting, feels the genial ray. Pope. 2. To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, cruel, or the like; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion. Can you . . . behold My sighs and tears, and will not once relent Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RELENT)

• Relax
• Slacken
• loosen
• remit
• abate
• mitigate
• release
• unbend
• relent
• divert
• recreate
• rest
• enervate
• Unstring

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RELENT)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to RELENT)

• RELENT
  1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day,
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• REMIT
  1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.
• ABATER
  One who, or that which, abates.
• ABATE
  1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• DIVERTING
  Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
• SHACKLE
  1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
• UNSTRAINED
  1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• UNSTRIATED
  Nonstriated; unstriped.
• RELAX
  1. To become lax, weak, or loose; as, to let one's grasp relax. His knees relax with toil. Pope. 2. To abate in severity; to become less rigorous. In others she relaxed again, And governed with a looser rein. Prior. 3. To remit attention or effort;
• CONFINELESS
  Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.
• REMITTEE
  One to whom a remittance is sent.
• CONSTRAINED
  Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone.
• ENERVATE
  To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken;
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• HEREMITICAL
  Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
• INDIVERTIBLE
  Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• PENTREMITES
  A genus of crinoids belonging to the Blastoidea. They have five petal-like ambulacra.
• DIABATERIAL
  Passing over the borders. Mitford.