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.
ˈcave-in noun [countableC]
1.when the roof of something such as a mine falls in 〔矿井等顶部的〕塌陷,坍塌,倒塌
2.when someone stops opposing something 让步,屈服
Examples from the Corpus
cave-in• One day there was a cave-in.• There was no mention of flooding and cave-ins and being trappedunderground.• The Huntreport was thus seen on the Shankill as a cravencave-in to Fenian rioters.• Seems there was some others saw him after I did, monkeying about by that cave-in again.• I rather think he must just have picked it up when Mr Hambro chased him away from the cave-in.
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.