Thesaurus:surrender
English
Verb
Sense: to submit to the power of another
Synonyms
- abandon [⇒ thesaurus]
- bend [⇒ thesaurus]
- capitulate
- cave in
- cede
- deplore (obsolete)
- fall in line
- give over
- give in
- give up
- give way
- knuckle under
- relinquish
- submit
- surrender
- strike one's flag (idiomatic)
- strike the colors (idiomatic)
- strike the flag (idiomatic)
- throw in the towel (idiomatic)
- throw up one's hands (idiomatic)
- turn in
- wave the white flag (idiomatic)
- yield
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Further reading
- “624. relinquishment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “725. submission” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “782. relinquishment” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “surrender” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.