Break
Submit
Submit verb - To cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control).
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In fact, Phantom was intentionally trying to break him so he would submit to the Zombie Tattoo and be forever immortal with Phantom.
Source: Break The Cutie / Anime - Words Can Break My Bones: The Power of the Last Word is the ability to compose rhyming verse to which forces fae creatures such as the Folk to submit to the will of the speaker.
Source: Literature / The Folk Keeper - They might submit when the situation demands it, but they never break.
Source: Submissive Badass
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