cave in
- accede v.
- acquiesce v.
- assent v.
- back down v.
- buckle v.
- capitulate v.
- collapse v.
- comply v.
- concede v.
- crumple v.
- cry uncle v.
- descend v.
- drop v.
- fall v.
- give in v.
- give in/give up v.
- go down v.
- implode v.
- indent v.
- knuckle under v.
- kowtow v.
- relent v.
- retreat v.
- sag v.
- sink v.
- slump v.
- submerse v.
- subside v.
- succumb v.
- surrender v.
- wilt v.
- yield v.
- collapse n.
- damage n.
- descent n.
Example Sentences
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Those excavations were designed to determine how people collected and used plants inside the cave in the distant past.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Yet, every day ends with him retreating to his cave in exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Her first eclipse, seen in 2006 from a cave in Cappadocia, Turkey, made Whitman Check hyperventilate and her husband cry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Blasted into 1.9 billion-year-old stable bedrock in Eurajoki, southwest Finland, the geological repository for spent nuclear waste -- dubbed Onkalo which means "cave" in Finnish -- is nearly ready to start operations.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
The earth was perfect for a gopher hole too, black and soft and yet with a little clay in it so that it didn’t crumble and the tunnels didn’t cave in.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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