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KNUCKLE UNDER
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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 "knuckle 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 "knuckle under"):
accede; bow; defer; give in; submit (yield to another's wish or opinion)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to somebody
