0 past simple and past participle of relent --
1 to act in a less severe way towards someone and allow something that you had refused to allow before: --
The authority has now relented.
Pauls would have been wiped out had not the citizens protested and the planners relented.
He has relented somewhat in regard to the size, and so on, of the houses to be built.
However, later in the same debate he relented.
They relented and accepted that the maximum in the case of parents should be £50.
It later relented on this point, after pressure.
The result was that two appeals were necessary before the immigration department relented and allowed the fine to be repaid.
Too late he relented on that, but not sufficiently.
