knuckle under

knuckle under
verb
consent reluctantly (Freq. 2)
• Syn: ↑yield, ↑give in, ↑succumb, ↑buckle under
• Derivationally related forms: ↑yielding (for: ↑yield)
• Hypernyms: ↑accept, ↑consent, ↑go for
• Hyponyms: ↑submit, ↑bow, ↑defer, ↑accede, ↑give in
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s

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Somebody ——s to somebody

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SURRENDER, submit, capitulate, give in/up, yield, give way, succumb, climb down, back down, admit defeat, lay down one's arms, throw in the towel/sponge; informal quit, raise the white flag.

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intransitive verb
: to admit defeat : give in : give up : yield, submit

if it hadn't been for her pride, she'd have knuckled under and gone back home — Jane Woodfin

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knuckle under
To yield to authority, pressure, etc
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Main Entry: ↑knuckle

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ˌknuckle ˈunder [intransitive] [present tense I/you/we/they knuckle under he/she/it knuckles under present participle knuckling under past tense knuckled under past participle knuckled under] informal phrasal verb
to do what someone tells you to do

He wasn’t going to knuckle under to some woman.

Thesaurus: to obey a law or rule, or to accept someone's authoritysynonym obedience and cooperationhyponym
Main entry: knuckle

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knuckle under [phrasal verb]
informal : to stop trying to fight or resist something : to agree to do or accept something that you have been resisting or opposing

Despite the pressure, he refused to knuckle under. [=give in]

— often + to

He refused to knuckle under to anyone.

He finally knuckled under to the pressure.

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Main Entry: ↑knuckle

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