knuckle under

• Фразовый глагол, означающий подчиниться или уступить давлению, авторитету или требованиям.

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

uncountable · intransitive · phrasal, inseparable

1. Submit or yieldinformal

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

   Подчиниться

   • 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.

   Synonymsaccedecapitulatecave inconcedegive inrelentsubmitsuccumbsurrenderyield

   Antonymsdefyopposerebelresistwithstand

Base verbknuckle