Usually means: Collapse due to structural failure.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word cave in:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. cave-in: Merriam-Webster
  2. cave-in, cave in: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cave-in: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cave-in, cave-in, cave in: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cave in: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cave-In, cave-in: Wordnik
  7. cave in: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cave-in, cave in: Wiktionary
  9. cave-in: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cave-in: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cave-in: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cave-in, cave in: Dictionary.com
  13. Cave-In, Cave-In, Cave In (band), Cave In, Cave-in, Cave in: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. cave in: Rhymezone
  15. Cave In: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. cave in: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cave in: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. cave-in, cave in: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. cave in: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cave In (disambiguation), cave in: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cave-in, cave in: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cave in: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Cave In, cave in: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cave_ins as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cave in)

verb:  To collapse inward or downward.
verb:  (figurative) To relent; to grant approval against one's initial will.
noun:  Misspelling of cave-in. [The act of something collapsing or caving in.]

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