buckle under (English, verb)
expansion: buckle under (third-person singular simple present buckles under, present participle buckling under, simple past and past participle buckled under)
Senses:
glosses: To reluctantly accept something (due to a source of social pressure).
tags: intransitive
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: To collapse.
tags: intransitive
raw_tags: of a person's knees or a structure
Forms:
form: buckles under
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: buckling under
tags: participle
present
form: buckled under
tags: participle
past
form: buckled under
tags: past