BUCKLES Synonyms: 124 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of buckle

as in collapses

to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure the flimsy bridge buckled under the weight of the caravan of trucks

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as in devotes

to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention buckled himself down and finished the assignment in record time

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buckles

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noun

plural of buckle

as in loops

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Recent Examples of buckles

Verb

Building a support network well before senior year of high school can be the differentiator between a student who makes a confident, strategic choice of school and major, and one who buckles under the stress of the complex admissions landscape. — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 To his yacht-aspiring wrist, the buyer buckles a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Explorer II, a watch designed to commemorate Sir Edmund Hillary’s 1953 summit of Everest. — Adam Erace, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026 The word nearly buckles my knees. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025

Recent Examples of Synonyms for buckles

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Some songs are difficult to follow without lyric sheets in hand, and even then, the internal logic collapses, baiting you in with coherent ideas before going in another direction.

— Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 29 Oct. 2026
The roots infiltrate through tiny joints or cracks, expand from inside, and the pipe collapses gradually.

— Steven John, Architectural Digest, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of collapses

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Sound Moves to the Foreground Seminci also devotes a major retrospective to the role of sound in cinema.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Happily, Cooke devotes the bulk of his narrative to everyday Wikipedians and their collaboration’s emergent properties.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of devotes

Noun

Its stated goal is to build continuous defensive loops that find and fix weaknesses before attackers do.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
Rhythms lapse into funky half time for a moment, then get sucked back into warp speed; loops bounce and jitter across the stereo field.

— Andy Cush, Pitchfork, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of loops

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From trashing bedrooms and throwing couches, the pair tumbles down stairs and has a chase across the lawn before ending up in the pool.

— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
Front load washers are built with a horizontal drum that tumbles the clothes in each cycle.

— Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of tumbles

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Proponents say the measure applies to eight categories of projects California communities need to expand housing, improve civic infrastructure and promote green energy.

— Stephen Hobbs, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
On the other hand, many of these albums are timeless and continue to resonate, and today’s streaming culture has embraced exhuming catalog music — something that applies not only to old singles, but to old albums.

— Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of applies

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The 9th District covers the Far North Side of Chicago up to the North Shore and then bends sharply west to Crystal Lake and Algonquin.

— CBS News, CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026
Keeping time is a natural theme for the novel, and Li bends it to her will, often flashing forward to reveal events in her characters’ futures.

— Radhika Jones, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2026