GIVE IN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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 "give in" 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 "give in"):

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

Sentence frames:

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Yield to another's wish or opinion

Example:

The government bowed to the military pressure

Synonyms:

accede; bow; defer; give in; submit

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "give in" is one way to...):

buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield (consent reluctantly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s to somebody

Credits

Context examples:

"Good girl! Call Meg, and tell her you'll give in," said Laurie, with an approving pat, which annoyed Amy more than the 'giving in'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And Martin, head on arms, thrilled at the picture he caught of himself, at that moment in the afternoon of long ago, when he reeled and panted and choked with the blood that ran into his mouth and down his throat from his cut lips; when he tottered toward Cheese-Face, spitting out a mouthful of blood so that he could speak, crying out that he would never quit, though Cheese-Face could give in if he wanted to.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You licked Cheese-Face because you wouldn't give in, and you wouldn't give in partly because you were an abysmal brute and for the rest because you believed what every one about you believed, that the measure of manhood was the carnivorous ferocity displayed in injuring and marring fellow-creatures' anatomies.