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Another word for buckle

VERB

  1. To fall in

    Idiom:

    give-way

    See also:

    explosion

  2. To give in from or as if from a gradual loss of strength

    See also:

    resist

Idioms

void

buckle down

  1. To devote (oneself or one's efforts)

    See also:

    work

    collect

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Another word for buckle

NOUN

  1. See also:

    fastener

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • As he slid away, his belt buckle gouged into her stomach and she cried out in pain.

  • As he slid away, his belt buckle gouged into her stomach and she cried out in pain.

  • The large belt buckle at his lean waist lay flat against a washboard stomach.

  • Her gaze continued up to the large western belt buckle that hugged his flat abdomen.

  • Where the central oceanic buckle attains the water-line we have our oceanic islands, seen in our type ocean, as St Helena and the Azores.

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