knuckle under

• Sich unterordnen oder nachgeben, oft widerwillig, gegenüber Druck, Autorität oder Forderungen.

A phrasal verb meaning to submit or yield to pressure, authority, or demands.

unzählbar · intransitiv · Phrasal, untrennbar

1. Submit or yieldinformal

   To accept someone else's authority or demands, especially after resisting.

   Sich unterwerfen

   • After hours of negotiation, they finally knuckled under to the union's demands.
   • He refused to knuckle under to the pressure from his boss.
   • The small company knuckled under to the larger corporation's terms.

   Synonymeaccedecapitulatecave inconcedegive inrelentsubmitsuccumbsurrenderyield

   Antonymedefyopposerebelresistwithstand

Grundverbknuckle