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Knuckle Down

Definition: Knuckle Down

Knuckle Down

Verb

1. Work very hard, like a slave.

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


Synonyms: Knuckle Down

Synonyms: break one's back (v), buckle down (v), slave (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Knuckle Down

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: Knuckle Down

Expression using "knuckle down": knuckle down to. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: Knuckle Down

Language Translations for "knuckle down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

pustit se. (various references)

   

German

  

zupacken (get down to work, grab it), sich dahinterklemmen (buckle down). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

στρώνομαι. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kezét a földre támasztja (to knuckle down), hozzáfog vminek (to knuckle down to sg, to knuckle to sg), alaposan nekilát vminek (to knuckle down to sg, to knuckle to sg). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uckleknay ownday

   

Romanian

  

se apuca serios de (knuckle down to). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ponerse a (address oneself to, proceed, set about), dedicarse a (be engaged, embrace, engage in, go in for, take up). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

foga sig (knuckle under, submit to), böja sig (be curved, bend, incurve, knuckle under, stoop). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เริ่มทำงานหนัก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

teslim olmak (capitulate, give in, give oneself up, knuckle under, lay down arms, lay down one's arms, resign, resign oneself to, surrender), pes etmek (cave, cry uncle, give up, knuckle under, succumb, surrender, throw in the towel, throw up the sponge), boyun eğmek (bend, bend the knee, bow, bow down, buckle, buckle under, cave, comply, comply with, give way, indulge, knuckle under, resign oneself to, sit down under, submit, surrender, truckle). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

рішуче взятися, підкорятися (bow, comply, conform, knuckle under, obey, submit, tame), поступатися (admit, attribute, cede, comply, concede, give ground, give in, knuckle under, listen, relinquish, retreat, surrender, yield). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Knuckle Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-k-k-l-n-n-o-u-w"

-3 letters: knuckled, unlocked.

-4 letters: clonked, clowned, clunked, enwound, knocked, knuckle, nucleon, unowned, wedlock.

-5 letters: cloned, conked, conned, cowled, konked, leukon, locked, louden, lucked, nocked, nodule, nuncle, undock, undone, unkend, unlock, wonned.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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