Relent
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Stay; stop; delay.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To become less severe or intense; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to soften in temper; to become more mild and tender; to feel compassion. To slacken; to abate. To mollify; to cause to be less harsh or severe. To become less rigid or hard; to soften; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce.
Soften
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make something soft or softer.To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).To make less harshTo become soft or softer
Example sentence: There are places on a man's head that are as hard as a rock. Your head's actually stronger than your body. And you don't have too many instruments up there workin'. But you got a lot of tools workin' in that body: the liver, the kidneys, the heart, the lungs. You soften that up and see what happens. I lived by the body shot.