knuckle under

• Verbo frasal que significa ceder ou submeter-se a pressão, autoridade ou exigências, geralmente após resistência inicial.

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

incontável · intransitivo · phrasal, inseparável

1. Submit or yieldinformal

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

   Submeter-se

   • 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.

   Sinônimosaccedecapitulatecave inconcedegive inrelentsubmitsuccumbsurrenderyield

   Antônimosdefyopposerebelresistwithstand

Verbo baseknuckle