Buckle under (original) (raw)

I. (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consent reluctantly

Synonyms:

buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "buckle under" is one way to...):

accept; consent; go for (give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "buckle under"):

accede; bow; defer; give in; submit (yield to another's wish or opinion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to somebody

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