intransitive. To submit, yield. Obsolete. rare.

In various phrases and proverbial sayings. girdle of chastity = chastity belt n.; girdle of Venus: see Venus, n.1 9.

Without construction. intransitive in same sense.

To give in, yield (to). Obsolete.

intransitive. To give or acknowledge allegiance to a person; to make one's submission to; (more generally) to submit, yield, give in. Obsolete.

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

intransitive. In the progressive. Of a person: to yield to persuasion; = to come around 2b at phrasal verbs 1. Cf. coming, adj. 3. Obsolete.

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

to give the stoop: to bow; figurative to yield, give way. Obsolete.

figurative. To give way, submit; to cringe, truckle. Obsolete exc. dialect.

To lie down; to succumb, yield.

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. figurative. To yield; to give way, to give in. Frequently with to.

intransitive. To give in. Scottish.

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

figurative. colloquial. without in. slang (chiefly U.S.).

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

figurative. intransitive. To submit or yield; to accede, give in. In early use chiefly with to; in later use chiefly with before. rare after 17th…

to give (it) best: to admit defeat, to give up.

give way To allow one's self-control or fortitude to be broken down.

intransitive. To yield without resistance, esp. passively or obsequiously; to give in.