- intransitive verb
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- to bend, warp, bulge, or collapse: The bridge buckled in the storm.
- to yield, surrender, or give way to another (often fol. by under): She refused to take the medicine, but buckled under when the doctor told her to.
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More word meanings for buckle
from leading online dictionaries:
- Wiktionary:
- buckle @ wiktionary
- WordNet:
- buckle @ wordnet.princeton.edu
- Merriam-Webster Online:
- buckle @ M-W.com
- MSN Encarta:
- buckle @ Encarta
- American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:
- buckle @ AHD provided by Yahoo! Education
- Answers.com:
- buckle @ Answers.com
- Search for more definitions on Google:
- Google define:buckle
- Search for more definitions on Yahoo!:
- Yahoo! define:buckle
- Search for more definitions on Ask.com:
- Ask.com dictionary: buckle