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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When a reef collapses, hard corals disappear and are replaced by algae, rubble and sponges.

— ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
For developers managing a mix of AC and DC loads, Inam says the device collapses a number of machines—including a rectifier, an inverter, backup power and energy management—into a single unit four feet square and 12 feet high.

— Alex Pasternack, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of collapses

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Happily, Cooke devotes the bulk of his narrative to everyday Wikipedians and their collaboration’s emergent properties.

— Julian Lucas, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
The film devotes a large portion of its second half focusing on Musk’s political activities with DOGE and beyond, though does not take a political position on, well, politicians, nor advocate for one candidate or cause over another.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of devotes

Noun

Instead, businesses need to pay attention to AI-specific metrics such as data drift, hallucinations, reasoning loops and token consumption.

— Klaudia Zaika, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
The production is a rattling junk drawer of circuit-bent thrift-store keyboards, dusty drum machines, and unintuitive loops, and KTO combines them into head-scratching, shouldn’t-work grooves.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 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

Verb

For the collection, the mill applies a special cleaning process to cotton that removes 80 percent of impurities.

— Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 21 Oct. 2026
The California Department of Education clarified that a waiver the district received only applies to the 80% staffing rule and does not extend the three-year spending deadline, meaning unexpended funds revert to the state.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of applies

Noun

Hilly woods or swamps with lots of folds, ditches, and creeks are best for ground hunting.

— Colin Moore, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2026
Parker’s hair was gathered into an enormous, layered, fishtail braid that starts high on the back of her head with a bow, its ends interlaced intermittently with the incredibly thick folds of the plaits.

— Marci Robin, Allure, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of folds

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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
Phoebe Bridgers, in her first film role, pulls off an uncanny transformation as a decoy who bends lines of age and gender.

— Joe Reid, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2026