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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
relent/rɪˈlent/

▶verb

1 abandon or mitigate a harsh intention or cruel treatment.

2 become less intense.

– origin ME (in the sense ‘dissolve’): based on L. re- ‘back’ + lentare ‘to bend’.

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