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synonyms for white flag

  • backing down
  • capitulation
  • caving in
  • flag of truce
  • giving-in
  • retreat
  • submission
  • throwing in the towel
  • truce flag
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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to white flag, such as: backing down, capitulation, caving in, flag of truce, giving-in, and retreat.

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How to use white flag in a sentence

And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
ROSEMARY IN SEARCH OF A FATHERC. N. WILLIAMSON
None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.
GLANCES AT EUROPEHORACE GREELEY
Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 60, NO. 372, OCTOBER 1846VARIOUS
I am pleading for a clear white light of education that shall go like the sun round the whole world.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
The smoke from her kitchen fire rose white as she put in dry sumac to give it a start.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
Her white face looked ethereal in the moonlight, and her bloodless lips were quivering with returning life.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
Even a plain girl looks well in white, and Georgie was not a plain girl by any means.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
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capacitor

WORDS RELATED TO WHITE FLAG

  • abandonment
  • abdication
  • acquiescence
  • appeasement
  • capitulation
  • cessation
  • dedition
  • delivery
  • giving way
  • relenting
  • relinquishment
  • renunciation
  • submission
  • succumbing
  • white flag
  • yielding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.