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knuckle under

knuckle under verb: to cooperate or yield when forced or pressured to do so.

Verb

knuckle under (third-person singular simple present knuckles under, present participle knuckling under, simple past and past participle knuckled under)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To cooperate or yield when forced or pressured to do so.
    • The man is a ruffian. I won't knuckle under to him!1907, John Galsworthy, “Acute Attack of—‘Pendycitis’”, in The Country House, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part III, page 286
    Synonyms:
    fall in line

knuckle under meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

knuckle under in Urdu

ہار ماننا, اطاعت کرنا, تابع ہونا

knuckle under in Malayalam

submit, surrender, capitulate
കെെവിരി മുട്ട്, കുരട്ട, മണിബന്ധം, വിരൽമുട്ട്, മോതിരക്കണ്ണി, കാൽവിരലി മുട്ട്

knuckle under in Kannada

ಮಣಿ, ಬಗ್ಗು, ಶರಣಾಗು, ಅಧೀನವಾಗು

Synonyms of knuckle under

Forms of knuckle under

third-person singular presentknuckles under
present participleknuckling under
past participleknuckled under
pastknuckled under

Questions about knuckle under

What does knuckle under mean?
Knuckle under means to cooperate or yield when forced or pressured to do so.
What is knuckle under in Urdu?
Knuckle under in Urdu is ہار ماننا, اطاعت کرنا, تابع ہونا. See Knuckle under meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is knuckle under?
Knuckle under is a verb.
What is the past tense of knuckle under?
The past tense of knuckle under is knuckled under.

Words near knuckle under in the dictionary

  1. knuckle joint
  2. knuckle joints
  3. knuckle sandwich
  4. knuckle sandwiches
  5. knuckle to
  6. knuckle under
  7. knuckle up
  8. knuckle-buster
  9. knuckle-busters
  10. knuckle-dragger
  11. knuckle-draggers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: knuckle under (page history and authors); knuckle under (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); knuckle under (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); knuckle under (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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