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synonyms for capitulation

  • submission
  • yielding
  • bowing
  • conceding
  • resignation
  • surrender
  • accedence
  • buckling
  • giving up
  • knuckling under
  • relenting
  • succumbing
On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to capitulation, such as: submission, yielding, bowing, conceding, resignation, and surrender.

antonyms for capitulation

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  • defending
  • fight
  • fighting
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How to use capitulation in a sentence

Netanyahu’s response to defeat was not simply to deride the new coalition as a “government of capitulation” but to call his ouster the “greatest election fraud in the history of the country.”
WITH BENJAMIN NETANYAHU OUT IN ISRAEL, WHAT COMES NEXT FOR THE COUNTRY?IAN BREMMERJUNE 18, 2021TIME
Tesla now commands a bigger market valuation than social-media giant Facebook, with the latest jolt to the electric-vehicle maker’s share price coming from the capitulation of a long-time Wall Street bear on Thursday.
TESLA TOPS FACEBOOK IN MARKET VALUEVERNE KOPYTOFFJANUARY 7, 2021FORTUNE
Like Gandhi after him, Sharpe had taken on the most powerful empire in the world, and achieved an astonishing capitulation.
JAMAICA’S CHRISTMAS SLAVE UPRISINGSEAN BRASWELLDECEMBER 23, 2020OZY
If I showed you the next four quarters of M&A trade, there’s a huge number of capitulation trades, which is a sign of a declining market, not a rising one.
‘A SIGNIFICANT UPTICK IN DEAL FLOW’: WHY EUROPE IS BECOMING A HOTBED OF AD TECH INNOVATIONLARA O'REILLYAUGUST 5, 2020DIGIDAY
At last the accumulated horrors shook even his firm spirit, and on June 4th a capitulation was agreed on.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
During the early months of 1797 he commanded a column at Bologna, and was present at the capitulation of Mantua.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
The capitulation was a matter of half an hour, and by nightfall I followed the duke and his escort into the town.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
Orders were then given to cease firing, and by one oʼclock the terms of capitulation were being negotiated.
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDSJOHN FOREMAN
But at ten o'clock in the evening a flag of truce arrived offering a capitulation.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISON
Capitulation of the city of Canton, which had forfeited previous stipulations with the British and resumed hostilities.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELL
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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WORDS RELATED TO CAPITULATION

  • acquiescence
  • capitulation
  • complaisance
  • condescension
  • docility
  • obeisance
  • submission
  • yielding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.