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truckle

verb

/ˈtrʌk.əl/

Meaning

To submit or yield obsequiously to someone in power.

He refused to truckle to the demands of the corrupt officials.

submit, yield, bow, surrender, obey

resist, defy, oppose

truckle to authority, truckle under pressure, refuse to truckle

to satisfy thirst by drinking; to extinguish fire

to flow out suddenly and forcefully, or to express something enthusiastically

to fall down or inward suddenly; to break down completely

to tighten or contract into small folds or wrinkles

to discover or locate something that was lost or hidden; to come across

to formally renounce or give up a belief, cause, or claim