truckles
Yields to pressure
Truckles is the third-person singular of truckle, meaning to submit or yield obsequiously to someone in authority: He truckles to his boss at every opportunity.
The word carries connotations of weakness or servility—not merely following orders but doing so in a fawning, undignified way.
A truckle is also a small wheel or caster, and a truckle bed (or trundle bed) rolls on such wheels.
Postpones or yields
- yieldsGives forth results
- capitulatesYields to demands
- acquiescesAgrees without protest
- succumbsYields to superior force
concedes · relents · surrenders · bows · caves · kowtows · grovels · cringes
Circular rotation devices
- roundsAmmunition or bout divisions
- agedAdvanced in years
- cheddarFirm aged English cheese
- WensleydaleEnglish cow's milk cheese
dairy · rind · cellar · matured · rolled · farmhouse · trundle
Excessive willingness to obey
- obsequiousnessServile eagerness to please
- sycophancyObsequious behavior toward authority
- fawningExcessive insincere flattery
- bootlickingServile flattery for advantage
toadyism · groveling · cringing · kowtowing · brown-nosing · apple-polishing · ingratiation · servility
defers
Postpones or yields
- yieldsGives forth results
- capitulatesYields to demands
- acquiescesAgrees without protest
succumbs · concedes · relents · surrenders · bows · caves · kowtows · grovels · cringes · fawns
wheels
Circular rotation devices
Wensleydale · dairy · rind · cellar · matured · rolled · farmhouse · trundle
subservience
Excessive willingness to obey
- obsequiousnessServile eagerness to please
- sycophancyObsequious behavior toward authority
- fawningExcessive insincere flattery
bootlicking · toadyism · groveling · cringing · kowtowing · brown-nosing · apple-polishing · ingratiation · servility · meekness