Usually means: Yielded or surrendered under pressure.
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  1. caved: Merriam-Webster
  2. caved: Collins English Dictionary
  3. caved: Vocabulary.com
  4. Caved, caved: Wordnik
  5. caved: Wiktionary
  6. Caved, caved: Dictionary.com
  7. Caved: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Caved: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. caved: FreeDictionary.org
  10. caved: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. caved: Encyclopedia

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(Note: See cave as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Cave)

noun:  A large, naturally-occurring cavity formed underground or in the face of a cliff or a hillside.
noun:  A hole, depression, or gap in earth or rock, whether natural or man-made.
noun:  A storage cellar, especially for wine or cheese.
noun:  A place of retreat, such as a man cave.
noun:  (caving) A naturally-occurring cavity in bedrock which is large enough to be entered by an adult.
noun:  (nuclear physics) A shielded area where nuclear experiments can be carried out.
noun:  (drilling, uncountable) Debris, particularly broken rock, which falls into a drill hole and interferes with drilling.
noun:  (mining) A collapse or cave-in.
noun:  (figuratively, also slang) The vagina.
noun:  (slang, politics, often "Cave") A group that breaks from a larger political party or faction on a particular issue.
noun:  (obsolete) Any hollow place, or part; a cavity.
noun:  (programming) A code cave.
verb:  (figurative) To surrender.
verb:  To collapse.
verb:  To hollow out or undermine.
verb:  To engage in the recreational exploration of caves.
verb:  (mining) In room-and-pillar mining, to extract a deposit of rock by breaking down a pillar which had been holding it in place.
verb:  (mining, obsolete) To work over tailings to dress small pieces of marketable ore.
verb:  (obsolete) To dwell in a cave.
noun:  The 18th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A town and comune in Lazio, Italy.
noun:  A village in Lincoln County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  A settlement in Timaru district, Canterbury, New Zealand.
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