Relent is valid Scrabble Word

Is relent a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is relent valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

6 letters word
6 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for RELENT in dictionary:

VERB:

to soften and become less severe
abandon or mitigate a severe or harsh attitude, especially by finally yielding to a request
become less severe or intense
give up a harsh intention, become less severe
To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.
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.
To slacken; to abate.
To soften; to dissolve.
To mollify ; to cause to be less harsh or severe.
give in, as to influence or pressure

NOUN:

Stay; stop; delay.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to become less severe

Words related to RELENT

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Words that contain RELENT

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How to use RELENT in a sentence

He had hopes that the proud beauty was beginning to relent.
The Romans were too faithful to the ideal of grandeur in themselves not to relent, after a generation or two, before the grandeur of Hannibal.
My eldest daughter has told me that when he reforms she may be brought to relent.
If ever you relent and come to see me, I can take you for some lovely walks.
Not that he meant to relent or alter his determination.
But presently, dwelling on the matter, she began to relent.
Having nothing more to fear, having scarce anything to hope, for that he would relent there seemed no promise whatever, she lay down dully.
Come, I shall only relent when you have shown yourself more kind.
Did not women of old sometimes relent? He asked himself over and over again the same questions, pleaded to himself the same arguments.
Relent, therefore, O hero, it behoveth thee not to send me away.

O king, O hero, do thou relent towards her that weepeth ceaselessly for that calamity and do thou give her an answer.
Dorothy, however, was determined not to relent, she would hold him a prisoner, she decided, until she found the boys.
Surely her purpose had been to bring him to his knees and then laugh! Relent? Not while her cup still held a drop of pride.
But fate had now discharged its last evil arrow, and began to relent during the two remaining years of his life.
Rhodes never despaired of being restored to her favour, and would have given much to anyone able to induce her to relent in her judgment as to his conduct.
Rhodes and tried to induce her to relent in her resolution.
Her former experience in such matters had taught her to expect that he would probably call her up and beg to see her sooner, when she might relent if he was humble enough.
If she could move her father to relent, it might be lifted from her.
Even had he found her in tears there was enough good nature in the man to have made him relent.
Did not paternal affection cause him to relent? 11.
From this moment Legendre appeared to me to be satisfied, and to relent.
He began presently to relent, and spoke to me in a kinder manner.
At this the admiral feigned to relent, and after retiring for a time to his cabin, came forth and told them that he would consent to bring back the lost moonlight.
The eye must first be made to see, and the heart to break and relent under and for sin, or else there can be no conversion.
The Spanish admiral sent an answer to the prisoners, who had begged him to relent, informing them that he would do his duty, as he wished they had done theirs.
Abbott probably hoped that you would relent, so he waited for a few minutes.
I have been staying there myself for a day or two, in the hope of persuading Eunice to relent.
These signs of docility caused Sir Lionel to relent and come down off his high horse.
This sacramental tie of friendship, on recognition, caused the savage heart of Girty to relent.
Davis, feeling that any man possessing a human heart would relent when that delicious perfume met his nose.
Then he wrote to Lina Dent, beseeching her to relent, since he had done all in his power to carry out her wishes.
People would only think she was mad for running away, and surely when Allan Lyster saw what he had done he would relent and persecute her no more.
There was pain on his face, suffering that she knew her words had evoked and, more than that, a yearning to relent.
She would relent and see him again, and then he would put over on the other tack.
But hers was not one of those natures that relent easily.

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