cave on• After a few hours, the cage starts to cave in on the divers.
cave to• We were afraid that Fifi was caving in to family pressure and regressing into some nice third-world girl.• They accused the government, which is led by Hindu nationalists, of caving in toforeign pressure.
Examples from the Corpus
cave• Sixty foot drops are not really much to write home about when some one's been caving as long as he has.• Will Grijalva cave in and go with Postil?• In October, on 3 October 1985, I was feeling so depressed I thought the walls were caving in on me.• It is clear that the walls around the governor are caving in.• Newport looked poised to run away with it, but Bridgend refused to cave in.
Origincave1
(1200-1300)Old FrenchLatincava, from cavus“hollow”
cave2
(1700-1800) Probably from calve“to cave in”((18-19 centuries)), perhaps from Flemishinkalven; influenced by → CAVE1