a large hole in the side of a hill or under the ground:
the mouth (= the entrance) of the cave * The area contains vast underground cave systems. * a cave-dweller (= a person who lives in a cave)
Part of speech: verb
PHRASALVERBS
cave in (on sb/sth) (of a roof, wall, etc.) to fall down and inwards:
The ceiling suddenly caved in on top of them.
relatednounCAVE-IN
cave in (to sth) to finally do what sb wants after you have been strongly opposing them:
The President is unlikely to cave in to demands for a public inquiry.
seealsoCAVING
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cave is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is cave a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cave is tagged as noun.
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