GIVE IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does give in mean? 

• GIVE IN (verb)
  The verb GIVE IN has 2 senses:

1. yield to another's wish or opinion

2. consent reluctantly

  Familiarity information: GIVE IN used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIVE IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Yield to another's wish or opinion

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accede; bow; defer; give in; submit

Context example:

The government bowed to the military pressure

Hypernyms (to "give in" is one way to...):

buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield (consent reluctantly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s to somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consent reluctantly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield

Hypernyms (to "give in" is one way to...):

accept; consent; go for (give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "give in"):

accede; bow; defer; give in; submit (yield to another's wish or opinion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s to somebody

 Context examples 

How could she deny that credit to his assertions in one instance, which she had been obliged to give in the other?

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Again and again I had to ask him whether he would give in and sign the documents.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And Cheese-Face did not give in, and the fight went on.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If he goes on like the rejected lovers in books, you'll give in, rather than hurt his feelings.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This he was to give in charge to a certain Petrof Skinsky, who dealt with the Slovaks who traded down the river to the port.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The king took the gift very graciously, and said he knew not what to give in return more valuable and wonderful than the great turnip; so the soldier was forced to put it into a cart, and drag it home with him.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

You soon give in.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and shoves. ‘Hullo!’ I yelled. ‘Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jane instantly gave a look at Elizabeth which spoke her distress at such premeditation, and her entreaty that she would not give in to it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

I had to give in, for Mina's resolution was fixed; she said that it was the last hope for her that we should all work together.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)