relent vs total

relent

verb
  • To slacken; to abate. 

  • To give in or be swayed; to become less hard, harsh, or cruel; to show clemency. 

noun
  • Stay; stop; delay. 

total

verb
  • To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss) 

  • To equal a total of; to amount to. 

  • To add up; to calculate the sum of. 

  • To amount to; to add up to. 

adj
  • Entire; relating to the whole of something. 

  • (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs. 

  • Complete; absolute. 

noun
  • An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts. 

  • Sum. 

How often have the words relent and total occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )