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be surrender
verb
To give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically to yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
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"And so I came to wonder," he reflects during one of the philosophical interludes that undermine and dilute the stretches of portraiture, "whether one characteristic of poverty might be surrender to defeat".
We are not out to achieve superiority but we do not intend to become vulnerable to an attack or to an ultimatum in which our choice would be surrender or die.
The better term might be "surrender".
"We have to address this because anything else would be surrender to terrorists and this is the last thing we all want to do".
The use of the word "defend" suggests that it would be "surrender" -- that is to say, "weak" -- for him to show flexibility.
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Later, Oostende had to be surrendered.
He signalled that vouchers would be surrendered without a fight.
Churchill & Roosevelt say they won't be surrendered to by Fascists, they want to be surrendered to by democrats.
"We can't be surrendering".
All of this needs to be surrendered.
How many must be surrendered to the biohazard bin?
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