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gave in
verb as in admit defeat
Weak matches
- abandon
- back down
- bail out
- bow out
- buckle under
- capitulate
- cave in
- cease
- cede
- chicken out
- collapse
- comply
- concede
- cry uncle
- cut out
- desist
- despair
- drop
- drop like a hot potato
- fold
- forswear
- hand over
- leave off
- pull out
- quit
- relinquish
- resign
- stop
- submit
- surrender
- take the oath
- throw in the towel
- waive
- walk out on
- wash one's hands of
- yield
Example Sentences
Some school districts refused, though it's quite possible others gave in out of an unwillingness to fight with Walters to defend their students.
Instead it is hearing statements he gave in the aftermath of the incident, read out by counsel to the inquiry, Andrew O’Connor KC.
“Everyone started arguing and insulting each other. The captain gave in and turned back to Senegal.”
But after 20 years, he finally gave in and relinquished this hold over this film and let it go.
Echoing the message his Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave in her speech on Monday, Sir Keir will say that "if we take tough long-term decisions now" there will be "light at the end of the tunnel".
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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