Give In

Definition: Give In

Give In

Verb

1. Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The government bowed to the military pressure".

2. Consent reluctantly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Give In

Lawsuit

Serve with a writ, cite, apprehend, arraign, sue, prosecute, bring an action against, indict, impeach, attach, distrain, commit; arrest; summon, summons; give in charge; (restrain).

Restraint

Arrest; take up, take charge of, take into custody; take prisoner, take captive, make prisoner, make captive; captivate; lead captive, lead into captivity; send to prison, commit to prison; commit; give in charge, give in custody; subjugate.

Stability

Verb: be firm; Adjective: stick fast; stand firm, keep firm, remain firm; weather the storm, stay the course, stick to the course, keep the faith, don't give in, don't buckle under.

Submission

Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.

Crosswords: Give In

Give in to the dark side of the force, you knob. (Strange Brew; writing credit: Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, screenplay by Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas and Steve De Jarnatt.)

Wanna give in (When I See You Smile; performing artist: Bad English)

You see I wanted her real bad and I was about to give in (Keep Your Hands To Yourself; performing artist: Georgia Satellites)

Give in to the given and put out the light (This Time Around; performing artist: Hanson)

And if you wanna win you don't give in (Never Say Die; performing artist: The Hard)

Easy to give in (Easy to Be Hard; performing artist: Three Dog Night)

Don't Give In to Him (performing artist: Gary Pucket and the Union Gap)

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Books

• Kissed the Girls and Made Them Cry - Why We Lose When We Give In (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Give in Kind (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "give in": don't give in ♦ give in change ♦ give in charge ♦ give in custody ♦ give in exchange ♦ give in marriage ♦ give in return ♦ give in smb.'s notice ♦ give in to smb. ♦ give in to temptation ♦ give in your name ♦ To give in. Additional references.

Afrikaans

afstaan (cede, give, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Albanian

rrah (aim, assess, beat, beat up, castigate, cob, flail, flap, flicker, give a good hiding, lambaste, larrup, lather, lay into, lick, mill, Pat, thrash, thresh, trounce, wallop, whop), ndëshkoj (amerce, castigate, chastise, condemn, correct, discipline, dish it out, penalize, punish), jap (accord, adjudge, administer, afford, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, come through, concede, deliver, dish, dispense, furnish, get through, give, hand in, impart, land, lend, pay, present, produce, provide, reach, throw, vouchsafe, yield), dorëzohem (capitulate, come around, give oneself up, knuckle under, succumb, surrender, throw up one's hands, throw up the sponge). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قدم (advance, age, antiquity, arrive, be age-old, become old, become timeworn, bring forward, bring out, chip, come, come back, display, extend, foot, get to, move forward, obsolescence, offer, peg, precede, present, produce, proffer, reach, return, set forth, show, submit, tender, turn in), ‏تنازل (abdicate, back down, cede, concede, concession, condescend, deign, demission, disclaimer, give ground, give up, part with, pass up, recede, recession, relinquish, renounce, renunciation, resignation, stand down, step down, surrender, transfer, waive, waiver, yield), ‏سلم (accept, admit, agree, allow, commit, consign, deliver, grant, hand over, hierarchy, ladder, postulate, presume, recognize, render, resign, rung, salaam, salute, scale, secure, stair, staircase, stairway, submit, transmit, turn in, turn over), ‏إستسلم (capitulate, cave, give up, give way to, hands up, lay down, resign, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in one's hand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

връчвам (deliver, hand in, pass in, serve, serve with), отстъпвам (accede to, backpedal, backslide, backtrack, comply, concede, defer, deliver, draw back, fall back, give, give back, give ground, give up, give way to, knuckle under, part with, release, retire, retreat, retrocede, say uncle, stand aside, stand back, step back, submit, succumb, vail), предавам се (capitulate, descend, fall, give oneself, give way to, lend, resign, say uncle, strike, surrender), предавам (carry, convey, deliver, denounce, get through, give, give over, give up, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, resign, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, transfuse, turn over, yield), давам (accommodate, accord, adduce, administer, afford, allow, award, bring forth, commit, confer, delegate, dig up, endow, gave, give, given, grant, hand out, hold, hold out, kick in, pass, pay, present, produce, put up, render, send, set, show). (various references)

Chinese 

�"步 (concession, to give in, to yield), 不服 (not accept, not give in to, refuse to accept as final, refuse to obey or comply, remain unconvinced by, want to haveoverruled or changed). (various references)

Czech

vzdát se (abnegate, concede, dispense with, forsake, give away, give oneself up, give up, lay down, lie down, relinquish, renounce), ustoupit (budge, fall back, give back, give ground, recede, relent, retire, retreat, shrink, shrink back, shrink from, start back, submit, withdraw, yield), povolit (allow, authorize, ease away, ease off, fail, give, grant, permit, relent, sanction, slacken, yield), odevzdat (consign, give over, hand in, pay, refer, turn in). (various references)

Danish

give efter (cede, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Dutch

zwichten (cede, give up, give way, hesitate, relinquish, waver, yield), wýken (cease, cede, disappear, give up, give way, relinquish, stop, yield), toegeven (accede, acknowledge, acknowledgement, add, admission, admit, agree, cede, concede, confess, consent, give up, give way, grant, profess, relinquish, yield), het veld ruimen (cede, give up, give way, relinquish, yield), afstaan (abandonment, cede, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Esperanto

cedi (cede, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Faeroese

lata sær lynda (abandon, cede, give up, give way, relinquish, renounce, resign, yield), eftirlíka (cede, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

Finnish

väistyä (cede, give up, give way, recede, relinquish, step aside, withdraw, yield). (various references)

French

abandonner (give up, give way). (various references)

Frisian

ôfstean (cede, give up, give way, relinquish, yield). (various references)

German

nachgeben (back down, budge, cave in, cede, climb down, drop, ease, fall, give up, give way, indulge, pander, relent, relinquish, submit, to give in, to give way, weaken, yield). (various references)

Greek 

υποχωρώ (abate, back down, back out of, blench, bow, cave in, climb down, defer to, ebb, fall back, flinch, give way to, recede, relent, retreat, subduce, subside, yield), ενδίδω (cede, yield, yield to). (various references)

Hebrew 

למסור (convey, deliver, forward, give, give up, hand, hand over, impart, render, turn in), לותר (cede, concede, forgo, give ground, give up, pass up, relinquish, renounce, resign, surrender, throw up), ל�"כ� ע (buckle under, capitulate, give up, give way to, knuckle under, resign, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in ones hand, yield), ל�"ס�'יר (deliver, hand over, isolate, surrender). (various references)

Hungarian

felad (abandon, abdicate, cede, give out, give up, mail, pass up, propound, renounce, to abandon, to abdicate, to cede, to chuck up, to despatch, to get off, to give up, to relinquish, to renounce, to resign, to surrender, to throw up, waive), enged (allow, cede, gave, give up, give way, given, had, let, relent, relinquish, to allow of, to comply with, to give, to give it best, to give the green light, to give way to, to have, to knuckle down, to lower one's flag, to relent, to slacken, to strike one's flag, to submit, to uncoop, yield), benyújt (present, to exhibit, to hand in, to lodge, to pass in, to put in an estimate, to render, to send in), bead (hand in, to exhibit, to give in, to hand in, to pass in, to present, to turn in). (various references)

Indonesian

mengalah (admit, concede, succumb, yield). (various references)

Italian

piegarsi (angle, bend, buckle, collapse, droop, fold, pander, stoop, tilt), piegare (bend, bow, crook, diffract, droop, duck, flex, fold, incline, inflect, lap, subdue, tend, tilt, tuck, turn, yield), mollare (ease, give, let go, pack in, release, slacken, stop), cedere (abandon, assign, cede, crack, devote, give, give up, give way, hand over, knuckle, relent, relinquish, render, sag, sell, submit, succumb, surrender, yield). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

折れる (to be folded, to break, to give in, to turn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おれる (to be folded, to break, to give in, to turn), ひゃっぽゆずる (to be unwilling but to give in), いじ�'はる (to be obstinate, to be perverse, to be stubborn, to not give in), え�"づける (to give in marriage, to marry off). (various references)

Manx

cur sheese (book, deposit, depress, discharge, lay, lower, prescribe, put down, salt, send down, suppress). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivegay inay

Portuguese

ceder (break, bring to one's knees, cede, convey, demise, desist, dispose of, fold, give up, give way, go, hand over, humor, humour, indulge, knuckle under, part with, prelude, pull off, relinquish, resign, sag, sell, sink, spare, submit, succumb, to yield, transfer, truckle, vail, vend, weaken, yield). (various references)

Romanian

prezenta (arise, bear, bring, carry forth, display, exhibit, expound, file, give, have, hold forth, hold up, introduce, offer, paint, picture, present, produce, put forward, put in, recommend, represent, reproduce, set forth, show, submit, tender), a-şi da numele. (various references)

Russian 

уступать (acquiesce, assent, be inferior to, cede, comply, concede, fall back, give ground, give way to, knuckle under, pass up, rebate, relinquish, remise, stand down, succumb, surrender, yield, yield to), сдаваться (capitulate, give up, surrender, throw in one's hand), вручать (deliver, give), признавать (acknowledge, admit, avow, avowing, confess, espouse, held [], homologate, plead, profess, recognize). (various references)

Scottish

ob (avoid; fail, give in or over, refuse, reject). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

predati (commend, commit, consign, deliver, give in charge, give over, hand, hand down, hand over, pass on, reach, surrender), popustiti (cede, defer, ease up, give way to, let up, relax, relent, remit, slack, slacken, unbrace). (various references)

Spanish

ceder (acquiesce, assign, budge, cede, concede, dispose of, give, give up, give way, go, grant, hand over, make over, part with, relent, relinquish, render up, sign away, sign over, transfer, turn over, waive, yield), abandonar (abandon, bolt, break, call off, cast away, cede, chuck, clear away, come off, come up, desert, ditch, drop, drop out, flee, forsake, give up, give way, iron out, jack in, lead off, leave, leave over, let into, quit, relinquish, resign, retire, take away, take from, take off, tear down, throw down, throw off, throw over, throw up, toss aside, walk out, walk out on, weaken, withdraw, yield). (various references)

Swedish

ge tappt. (various references)

Thai

ให้ชื่อ, ส่งไปให้ (give in to), ยอม (buckle), ยื่น (extend, lodge). (various references)

Turkish

vermek (accord, adduce, adjudge, administer, allow, assign, award, bear, bestow, bring, bring in, cede, charter, come across with, confer, contribute, dedicate, deliver, deliver up, dispose of, distribute, donate, endow, extend, furnish, give, give away, grant, hand, hand in, hand out, hand over, impart, inflict, inoculate, insert, instate, lend, let, let out, offer, pass, pass in, place, present, produce, put up, reach, render, serve, tender, throw, yield), teslim olmak (capitulate, give oneself up, knuckle down, knuckle under, lay down arms, lay down one's arms, resign, resign oneself to, surrender), teslim etmek (cede, commit, confide, consign, deliver, deliver up, give up, hand in, hand over, own, resign, submit, surrender, turn in, turn over, yield up), teslím etmek (cede, give up, give way, relinquish, yield), kabullenmek (accept, concede, confess, own, seize, settle for, stand for). (various references)

Ukrainian

вручати (deliver, give, hand, hand in), здаватися (appear, capitulate, surrender, yield up), поступатися (admit, attribute, cede, comply, concede, give ground, knuckle down, knuckle under, listen, relinquish, retreat, surrender, yield), погоджуватися (accede, accept, admit, allow, comply, concede, concur, consent, grant, hold with, homologate). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: genii, given.

-2 letters: gien, give, nevi, vein, vine.

-3 letters: eng, gen, gie, gin, veg, vie, vig.

-4 letters: en, in, ne.

+1 letter: eviting, inveigh, reiving, sieving, veiling, veining, viewing, viseing.

+2 letters: deriving, deviling, devising, evicting, evincing, genitive, gingivae, grieving, inveighs, inveigle, livening, misgiven, regiving, reliving, reviling, revising, reviving, riveting, thieving, veilings, veinings, vicinage, viewings.

+3 letters: achieving, believing, cognitive, deceiving, depriving, deveining, deviating, devilling, devoicing, diverging, diverting, divesting, driveling, evildoing, genitival, genitives, ingestive, innerving, inveighed, inveigher, inveigled, inveigler, inveigles, inventing, inverting, investing, inweaving, prevising, quivering, receiving, redriving, relieving, reviewing, revoicing, rivetting, scrieving, servicing, shivering, shrieving, silvering, slivering, sniveling, swiveling, unveiling, verifying, vicinages, vigilance, vigilante.