cave in

Questions about cave in

What does cave in mean?

cave in means "the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cave in?

Close synonyms include subsidence, collapse, fall in, give, give way. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cave in a common word?

cave in is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.