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]
buckle under
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The verb has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
consent reluctantly
Synonyms: yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under
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