truckled

Bent to pressure

Truckled is the past tense of truckle, meaning to submit servilely or yield weakly to another's demands.

Someone who truckled gave in to pressure or behaved obsequiously toward a more powerful person: He truckled to his boss's every whim.

The word carries contempt for the submission it describes.

servility

fawn

Young deer, or flatter

obsequious · servile · subservient · cringe · grovel · bootlick · apple-polish · brown-nose · curry favor · ingratiate

submission

kowtow

Excessive deference shown physically

  • grovelHumble oneself servilely
  • bowRespectful forward inclination
  • deferDelay or submit

capitulate · acquiesce · surrender · succumb · cave · yield · relent · knuckle under · give in · back down

Opposites
submission vs. defiance

truckleddefied

Openly resisted authority

resisted · rebelled · opposed · withstood · challenged

dignity and self-respect

truckledstood tall

Maintained dignity or resolve

asserted oneself · dominated · lorded over · condescended

Family

truckle, truckling, truckles

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