What does knuckle under mean?

knuckle under means "consent reluctantly".

What is another word for knuckle under?

Close synonyms include yield, give in, succumb, buckle under. 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 knuckle under a common word?

knuckle under is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

knuckle under — meaning, pronunciation and definition

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1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
consent reluctantly
Synonymsyield give in succumb buckle under
Broaderaccept
Narrowersubmit

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