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[ verb ] consent reluctantly

Used in print

(Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)

An aggressive woman wants a man to demand , not knuckle_under .

(Jim Thompson, The Transgressors....)

How could he exert authority over them - make them toe_the_line , as he had to - if he knuckled_under to this small-town clown ?

Related terms

accept submit giving_up

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