acquiesce
verbTo accept or agree without active resistance, often reluctantly.
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Clear all filtersTo accept or agree without active resistance, often reluctantly.
Ready to accept a decision without resistance.
Actively opposed, hostile, or inclined to conflict.
Strongly disinclined or opposed to something.
To stop resisting and accept another side's demands.
Strongly persuasive or holding close attention.
Strongly persuasive
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Driven by an urge that is difficult to resist.
To admit a point or yield something after resistance.
Admit or yield
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To escape capture or remain beyond someone's grasp or understanding.
Escape capture
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Not allowing a substance to pass through.
Not allowing passage through; figuratively, unaffected by an influence.
Not readily corrected or reformed; persistently fixed in a habit.
Unwilling or unable to change or bend.
Refusal to obey or acknowledge legitimate authority.
A violent uprising against an established government or authority.
Difficult to manage, control, or resolve.
Unwilling to compromise or change a firmly held position.
Unwilling or reluctant.
Stubbornly unwilling to change despite reasons or persuasion.
Stubbornly resistant
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Taking little independent action or accepting events without active resistance.
Strongly opposing change and seeking a return to earlier social or political arrangements.
Stubbornly resistant to control or an attempted remedy.
Resisting control
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To hold oneself back from doing something.
To become less severe, resistant, or intense.
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