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buckle under

buckle under verb: to reluctantly accept something (due to a source of social pressure).

Verb

buckle under (third-person singular simple present buckles under, present participle buckling under, simple past and past participle buckled under)

  1. (intransitive) To reluctantly accept something (due to a source of social pressure).
  2. (intransitive) To collapse.

Forms of buckle under

third-person singular presentbuckles under
present participlebuckling under
past participlebuckled under
pastbuckled under

Questions about buckle under

What does buckle under mean?
Buckle under means to reluctantly accept something (due to a source of social pressure).
What part of speech is buckle under?
Buckle under is a verb.
What is the past tense of buckle under?
The past tense of buckle under is buckled under.

Words near buckle under in the dictionary

  1. buckle hat
  2. buckle hats
  3. buckle in
  4. buckle over
  5. buckle to
  6. buckle under
  7. buckle up
  8. buckle-beggar
  9. buckle-beggars
  10. buckleable
  11. Buckleboo

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