knuckle under

Verb

Meaning

consent reluctantly

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

yield succumb give in fall accept bow surrender submit quit comply conform concede accede defer crumble

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Antonyms

take bear face fight combat weather

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Hypernyms

accept consent go for

Hyponyms

bow submit accede defer give in

Examples

Hans had courage to burn. If he had been willing to knuckle under to the Nazis he would have stayed at Kaiser Wilhelm Institute. But Hans was a scientist. He wouldn't trim his notion of truth to fit political gangsters. Robert A. Heinlein

I will be ashamed the day I feel I should knuckle under to social-political pressures about issues and research I think are important for the advance of scientific knowledge. Arthur Jensen

Close letter words and terms

knuckle swivel knuckle to knuckle touch knuckle up knuckle-buster knuckle-dragging