figurative. To submit, to bow; to yield, give way to; to prove pliant, tractable, or subservient.

intransitive. Of a person, group, etc.: to give way under (also beneath) misfortune, affliction, etc.; to be weighed down or crushed.

To give in, yield (to). Obsolete.

to cry creak: to confess oneself beaten or in error; to give up the contest; to give in. Obsolete. (Cf. to cry craven at craven, adj. 1b, to cry (or s…

In wider sense: To give way, be subjected, submit (cf. 17); occasionally to break down, succumb.

To give in, submit, surrender (obsolete); to check oneself, refrain, ‘pull up’ (U.S. colloquial).

To sink under pressure or give way to superior force, authority, etc.: originally said of persons or communities, and transferred of conditions…

intransitive. To yield; to give up the contest; to acknowledge oneself beaten; occasionally (colloquial) to admit under pressure of argument (that).

figurative esp. in to hoist, lower, strike the topsail.

to cry craven: to acknowledge oneself vanquished, to give up the contest, surrender. Also figurative.

figurative, esp. in to take up the cudgels: to engage in a vigorous contest or debate (for, in defence of, on behalf of). So †to give upor cross t…

To lie down; to succumb, yield.

intransitive. Of a person: to give in, yield, submit. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. Short for to knock under board, under (the) table at sense 5c. To acknowledge oneself beaten; to give in, yield, submit, ‘knuckle…

to knock under board, under (the) table: to succumb in a drinking-bout; to give in, submit, yield; = to knock under at phrasal verbs. Obsolete.

intransitive. To give in. Scottish.

intransitive (figurative) To acknowledge oneself beaten; to give way, give in, submit. Usually knuckle down or knuckle under.

to throw (also chuck) up the sponge: to abandon a contest or struggle; to submit, give in. colloquial.

In colloquial use with adverbs away, down, over, up, etc. chuck up (the sponge), said of a second in a prize-fight; hence, to give in, give up…

to throw in one's hand. Cards (esp. Poker). To retire from a game or hand; to fold. Cf. to throw up one's hand at phrasal verbs, to throw in one's…

transitive. Boxing slang (originally and chiefly Australian). to sky the wipe (or towel): (of a boxer or his or her second) to throw (a sponge or…

to drop one's bundle: to give up hope, surrender, resist or compete no further. Australian and New Zealand slang.

to throw (chuck,or toss) in the towel: to admit defeat. Originally Boxing. Cf. sponge, n.1 1c.

to buckle up: to become warped and bent, to collapse. Also figurative (cf. 7).