MEANING
Continuing with force or determination without giving relief or stopping.
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- relentless pursuit
- relentless pressure
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A relentless scraping followed them along the corridor.
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- relentless
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Primary category: horror / gothic. Forms: Comparative more relentless; superlative most relentless when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.
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