GIVE WAY, GIVING WAY
ADJECTIVES
1644 — CESSIBLE yielding; ready to yield or give way → obs.
1881 — YIELDY yielding, giving way → Sc.
NOUNS
1653 — SUCCUMBENCY a giving way or yielding; submission
1837 — SUCCUMBENCE a giving way or yielding
VERBS
1375 — WANDIS to recoil, to retreat, to give way → Sc.
1425 — RUSE to give way, to retreat → obs.
1579 — VAIL THE BONNET to manifest submission; to acknowledge oneself overcome or surpassed; to yield, to give way → arch.
1589 — GO TO THE WALL to give way, to succumb in a conflict or struggle
1667 — FALL IN to give way, to yield → obs.
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