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cave in (third-person singular simple present caves in, present participle caving in, simple past and past participle caved in)
- To collapse inward or downward.
- Synonyms: cave, break, crush, give way, stave, stave in
The roof caved in under the weight of the snow.
He caved-in the side of the barrel with a single well-placed kick.
- (figurative) To relent; to grant approval against one's initial will.
- Synonyms: cave, assent, give in, give up, relinquish, yield, comply, acquiesce
After he asked me a few times, I finally caved in and had a slice of cake.
2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.
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to collapse inward or downward
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 落磐 (luòpán)
- Danish: falde sammen, styrte sammen
- Dutch: afkalven (nl)
- Finnish: sortua (fi), romahtaa (fi)
- French: s’effondrer (fr), cabosser (fr)
- Galician: afundir (gl)
- German: einbrechen (de), zusammenbrechen (de)
- Japanese: 凹む (ja) (へこむ, hekomu), 倒れる (ja) (たおれる, taoreru), 窪む (ja) (くぼむ, kubomu)
- Khmer: ស្រុត (km) (srot)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gi etter (no), kollapse, bryte sammen, knele (no)
- Romanian: prăbuși (ro)
- Russian: обваливаться (ru) (obvalivatʹsja), обрушаться (ru) (obrušatʹsja)
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to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.
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- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Belarusian: паддавацца impf (paddavacca), паддацца pf (paddacca), даваць слабіну impf (davacʹ slabinu), даць слабіну pf (dacʹ slabinu)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: bryde sammen, kollapse
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: myöntyä (fi), taipua (fi), alistua (fi), antaa myöten (fi)
- French: s’effondrer (fr)
- German: nachgeben (de)
- Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gi opp (no), kapitulere, resignere
- Polish: uginać się impf, ugiąć się pf
- Romanian: ceda (ro)
- Russian: уступaть (ustupatʹ), прогибаться (ru) (progibatʹsja), сдаваться (ru) (sdavatʹsja), поддаваться давлению (poddavatʹsja davleniju), давать слабину (davatʹ slabinu)
- Slovak: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: ceder (es)
- Turkish: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
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cave in (plural cave ins)
- Misspelling of cave-in.
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