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Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-cave in.ogg Forms: cave ins [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cave in (plural cave ins)
  1. Misspelling of cave-in. Tags: alt-of, misspelling Alternative form of: cave-in
    Sense id: en-cave_in-en-noun-pfOC8pK6 Categories (other): English links with manual fragments
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cave-in

Verb [English]

Audio: en-au-cave in.ogg Forms: caves in [present, singular, third-person], caving in [participle, present], caved in [participle, past], caved in [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} cave in (third-person singular simple present caves in, present participle caving in, simple past and past participle caved in)
  1. To collapse inward or downward. Synonyms: cave, break, crush, give way, stave, stave in Translations (to collapse inward or downward): 落磐 (luòpán) (Chinese Mandarin), falde sammen (Danish), styrte sammen (Danish), afkalven (Dutch), sortua (Finnish), romahtaa (Finnish), s’effondrer (French), cabosser (French), afundir (Galician), einbrechen (German), zusammenbrechen (German), 凹む (hekomu) (alt: へこむ) (Japanese), 倒れる (taoreru) (alt: たおれる) (Japanese), 窪む (kubomu) (alt: くぼむ) (Japanese), ស្រុត (srot) (Khmer), gi etter (Norwegian Bokmål), kollapse (Norwegian Bokmål), bryte sammen (Norwegian Bokmål), knele (Norwegian Bokmål), prăbuși (Romanian), обваливаться (obvalivatʹsja) (Russian), обрушаться (obrušatʹsja) (Russian)
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  2. (figurative) To relent; to grant approval against one's initial will. Tags: figuratively Synonyms: cave, assent, give in, give up, relinquish, yield, comply, acquiesce Translations (to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.): паддавацца (paddavacca) [imperfective] (Belarusian), паддацца (paddacca) [perfective] (Belarusian), даваць слабіну (davacʹ slabinu) [imperfective] (Belarusian), даць слабіну (dacʹ slabinu) [perfective] (Belarusian), bryde sammen (Danish), kollapse (Danish), myöntyä (Finnish), taipua (Finnish), alistua (Finnish), antaa myöten (Finnish), s’effondrer (French), nachgeben (German), gi opp (Norwegian Bokmål), kapitulere (Norwegian Bokmål), resignere (Norwegian Bokmål), uginać się [imperfective] (Polish), ugiąć się [perfective] (Polish), ceda (Romanian), уступaть (ustupatʹ) (Russian), прогибаться (progibatʹsja) (Russian), сдаваться (sdavatʹsja) (Russian), поддаваться давлению (poddavatʹsja davleniju) (Russian), давать слабину (davatʹ slabinu) (Russian), ceder (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-cave_in-en-verb-0q1QfWfl Disambiguation of 'to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.': 16 84
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: cave-in

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "hekomu",
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          "word": "凹む"
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          "alt": "たおれる",
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          "word": "倒れる"
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          "word": "prăbuși"
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          "roman": "obvalivatʹsja",
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          "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
          "word": "обрушаться"
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          "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
          "word": "taipua"
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          "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
          "word": "alistua"
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          "word": "antaa myöten"
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          "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
          "word": "s’effondrer"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
          "word": "nachgeben"
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          "word": "gi opp"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
          "word": "kapitulere"
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          "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
          "word": "resignere"
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          "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
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          "word": "uginać się"
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          "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
          "word": "ceda"
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          "roman": "ustupatʹ",
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          "word": "уступaть"
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          "roman": "progibatʹsja",
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          "roman": "sdavatʹsja",
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          "roman": "poddavatʹsja davleniju",
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          "text": "The roof caved in under the weight of the snow.",
          "type": "example"
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          "text": "He caved-in the side of the barrel with a single well-placed kick.",
          "type": "example"
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        "To collapse inward or downward."
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          "word": "cave"
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          "word": "break"
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          "word": "crush"
        },
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          "word": "give way"
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          "ref": "2022 December 14, Christian Wolmar, “Productivity should play no part in pay negotiations”, in RAIL, number 972, page 46:",
          "text": "Eventually the NUR overplayed its hands with an all-out strike. And when Peter Parker, the then-chairman of BR, who was well regarded among his staff, called their bluff by threatening to close down the entire network, they caved in.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "grant"
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        "(figurative) To relent; to grant approval against one's initial will."
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          "word": "cave"
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        {
          "word": "assent"
        },
        {
          "word": "give in"
        },
        {
          "word": "give up"
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        {
          "word": "relinquish"
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        {
          "word": "yield"
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          "word": "comply"
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          "word": "acquiesce"
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      "word": "cave-in"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "luòpán",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "落磐"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "falde sammen"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "styrte sammen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "afkalven"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "sortua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "romahtaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "s’effondrer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "cabosser"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "afundir"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "einbrechen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "zusammenbrechen"
    },
    {
      "alt": "へこむ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "hekomu",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "凹む"
    },
    {
      "alt": "たおれる",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "taoreru",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "倒れる"
    },
    {
      "alt": "くぼむ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "kubomu",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "窪む"
    },
    {
      "code": "km",
      "lang": "Khmer",
      "roman": "srot",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "ស្រុត"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "gi etter"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "kollapse"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "bryte sammen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "knele"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "prăbuși"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obvalivatʹsja",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "обваливаться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "obrušatʹsja",
      "sense": "to collapse inward or downward",
      "word": "обрушаться"
    },
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "paddavacca",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "паддавацца"
    },
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      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "paddacca",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "davacʹ slabinu",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "даваць слабіну"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "dacʹ slabinu",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "даць слабіну"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "bryde sammen"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "kollapse"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "myöntyä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "taipua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "alistua"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "antaa myöten"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "s’effondrer"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "nachgeben"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "gi opp"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "kapitulere"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "resignere"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "uginać się"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "ugiąć się"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "ceda"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ustupatʹ",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "уступaть"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "progibatʹsja",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "прогибаться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sdavatʹsja",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "сдаваться"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "poddavatʹsja davleniju",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "поддаваться давлению"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "davatʹ slabinu",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "давать слабину"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to relent, comply, lose willpower, etc.",
      "word": "ceder"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cave in"
}

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    "Terms with German translations",
    "Terms with Japanese translations",
    "Terms with Khmer translations",
    "Terms with Mandarin translations",
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    "Terms with Polish translations",
    "Terms with Romanian translations",
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      "form": "cave ins",
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