Answer to "Relents" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BENDS , but the solution may also be LETSUP which is one of the most recent solution (2023 in New York Times).

Relents crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer Likelyness Letters
BENDS21 %5
LETSUP21 %6
EASESUP14 %7
CAVES7 %5
YIELDS7 %6
EASES7 %5
SOFTENS7 %7
MELTS7 %5
THAWS7 %5

Why may LETSUP be the right solution?

"Relents" is a verb that means to become less severe or intense. "Lets up" is a phrasal verb that means to become less severe or intense, making it a suitable answer for the clue.

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Relents

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.
  • soften
  • yield
  • softens
  • acquiesces
  • capitulates
  • abandons
  • intervenes
  • accedes
  • spurns
  • decides
  • succumbs
  • settles

Crossword Answer definitions

BENDS noun
  1. A curve.
  2. Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
  3. (in the plural, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
  4. One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
  5. Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
  6. In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
  7. Hard, indurated clay; bind.
  8. (in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
  9. (in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
  10. A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
BENDS verb
  1. To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
  2. To become curved.
  3. To cause to change direction.
  4. To change direction.
  5. To be inclined; to direct itself.
  6. (usually with "down") To stoop.
  7. To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
  8. To force to submit.
  9. To submit.
  10. To apply to a task or purpose.
  11. To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
  12. To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
  13. To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
  14. To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
  15. To swing the body when rowing.
BENDS noun
  1. The thickest and strongest planks in a wooden ship's side, wales.
BENDS noun
  1. A sometimes fatal condition resulting from the formation of nitrogen bubbles in the blood and tissues, because of too rapid decompression, seen especially in deep-sea divers ascending rapidly from a dive. It is characterized by severe pains in the joints and chest, skin irritation, cramps, nausea, and paralysis.

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