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Give way, collapse owing to stress, as in One more heavy snowfall and the roof may buckle under , or She buckled under the strain of two jobs . [Late 1500s]

Related Words

abandon
back down
capitulate
cave in
cease
cede
comply
concede
give up
hand over
pull out
quit
relinquish
submit
surrender
yield

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