knuckle under

• Verbe à particule signifiant se soumettre ou céder sous la pression, à l'autorité ou aux exigences.

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

indénombrable · intransitif · phrasal, inséparable

1. Submit or yieldinformal

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

   se soumettre

   • 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.

   Synonymesaccedecapitulatecave inconcedegive inrelentsubmitsuccumbsurrenderyield

   Antonymesdefyopposerebelresistwithstand

Verbe de baseknuckle