Wiktionary
alt. 1 The act of something collapsing or caving in. 2 The location where something has caved in. 3 (context idiomatic English) The act of relenting. n. 1 The act of something collapsing or caving in. 2 The location where something has caved in. 3 (context idiomatic English) The act of relenting. vb. 1 To collapse inward or downward. 2 (context idiomatic English) To relent; to acquiesce; to comply; to grant approval; to lose willpower.
WordNet
n. the sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it [syn: subsidence]
v. break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" [syn: collapse, fall in, give, give way, break, founder]
Wikipedia
Cave In is an American rock band that formed in 1995, in Methuen, Massachusetts. After several members changes in the late 1990s, their lineup solidified with the 1998 release of Until Your Heart Stops through Hydra Head Records. Their early albums were prominent in the metalcore scene. After this release, the band started experimenting with other genres. Cave In later received mainstream recognition for their 2003 RCA Records album Antenna and its lead single "Anchor," which had an overall alternative rock style. The group went on hiatus in 2006 and later reformed in 2009 with the release of a new EP, Planets of Old, as well as a new LP in 2011, titled White Silence. Both of these post-hiatus releases saw a return to Cave In's earlier and heavier sound.
Usage examples of "cave in".
Wounded in his escape, and closely pursued by the sheriff and his posse, El Diablo rode to his hide-out in the cave in Moaning Valley.
She stopped there, trying to make up her mind whether to follow the frozen creek to the stream and then to the cave in the long way around, or take the steeper, more direct way down to the cave.
When I was a boy I was tending a herd of goats far up in the hills, and near the pass where this mischance has to-day befallen us I found a cave in the mountain's side.
He was too dazzled by this fairy tale about a magic sword known only to the merlins' college, which lay in a cave in the hills to the west and upon which Ambrius had sworn his vows of kingship.
There's plenty scattered around the corridors they didn't cave in.
It was late afternoon, but light emanated from the cave in bursts of brightness.
Then the word ran 'mongst all the people, that Moncaire had gone to join Hardishane and his knights in their cave in the mountain.