Definition of "buckled" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of buckle. (verb)

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• "She didn’t see the way his expression buckled briefly, but Helen did as she waited with a travel mug."
• "The Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, once again buckled under pressure from No. 10 and compromised the integrity of his office by changing his legal advice to suit his boss."
• "Turnus arrays himself in hot haste for battle, and even now hath done on his sparkling breastplate with its flickering scales of brass, and clasped his golden greaves, his brows yet bare and his sword buckled to his side; he runs down from the fortress height glittering in gold, and exultantly anticipates the foe."