Synonyms for cave in
cave in

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1. cave inverb

   Synonyms:
   give way, rockfall, yield, break, stave in, crush, stave, relinquish, give in, assent, sellout, acquiescence, collapse, breakage, blockage, consent, give up

2. cave inverb

   The act of something collapsing or caving in.

   We were warned away from the rickety old mine because of the danger of cave-ins.

   Synonyms:
   yield, give way, relinquish, give up, stave, assent, crush, stave in, give in, break, blockage, consent, collapse, breakage, acquiescence, rockfall, sellout

3. cave innoun

   To relent; to acquiesce; to comply; to grant approval; to lose willpower.

   I finally caved in and had a slice of cake.

   Synonyms:
   give way, break, give in, stave in, assent, stave, give up, relinquish, crush, yield, sellout, consent, blockage, acquiescence, collapse, rockfall, breakage

4. cave innoun

   The act of relenting.

   It was a cave in, but I let my child have a candy to shut her up.

   Synonyms:
   consent, blockage, breakage, sellout, collapse, rockfall, acquiescence

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1. cave in, subsidenceverb

   the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it

   Synonyms:
   remittal, subsiding, settling, remission, subsidence

2. collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founderverb

   break down, literally or metaphorically

   "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"

   Synonyms:
   crack, consecrate, break away, give way, unwrap, devote, contribute, chip in, give out, split up, conk out, part, have, afford, collapse, hold, die, transgress, founder, weaken, crumple, bump, discover, snap off, turn over, go, demote, ease up, break out, separate, split, hand, gift, crack up, damp, smash, render, move over, feed, pay, get out, fracture, relegate, bring out, violate, reveal, divulge, pause, let on, open, get around, interrupt, wear out, grant, establish, break-dance, stop, check, break up, breach, develop, fall flat, give, return, apply, present, better, make, offend, go bad, impart, generate, break off, disclose, bust, erupt, give away, reach, recrudesce, tumble, break dance, go against, dampen, throw, fall in, soften, break in, let out, dedicate, ruin, fall apart, kick downstairs, burst, pass, break down, infract, fail, come apart, bankrupt, crumble, fall through, join, expose, break, crock up, discontinue, intermit, flop, leave, yield, get together, commit, sacrifice, wear, kick in, pass on

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1. Cherdchu Thungpanya:

   The good news is we had four( team members) out last night, nine are still in Tham Luang cave in #Thailand.

2. Caleb Shumway:

   He was way down in the cave, in fact, the cave he was down in ... there was the initial level of the cave that we crawled into and found the first bone, and then the cave tunnels off to the side, and we found a bag, and then we actually found the actual body. It was over some more, and down even deeper into the ground.

3. Peter Daszak:

   The new coronavirus matched a sample taken from a horseshoe bat in a cave in Yunnan in 2013, it was 96.2 % identical.

4. The Tea Party:

   Senate Republicans are about to cave in to President Obama, it’s time … to ratchet up the pressure on wobbly Senators.

5. Andrei Lankov:

   Sony was stupid to make a movie about killing Kim Jung-un, but it was even more stupid to cave in to pressure.