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What does give in mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word give in? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. to collapse or fall
  2. (idiomatic) to relent, yield, surrender or admit defeat
  3. (pugilist) to droop the head
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What Jackson did was an act of protest, not unlike what Rosa Parks committed when she refused to give in to a Jim Crow law.
The question demanded to know what measurement an ammeter would give in the circuit.
I think it would be a stunningly bad idea to give in to the threats of the anarchist tendency.
We can give in to inertia, even just the inertia of routine and business as usual.
Trying not to give in to the bleakness and misery of his surroundings, he is convinced that he is just one fighter away from success.
And it's refreshing to find an artist who refuses to give in to bitterness and resentment.

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