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capitulation
noun as in giving in
Strongest matches
Strong matches
Example Sentences
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.”
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.
Like Gandhi after him, Sharpe had taken on the most powerful empire in the world, and achieved an astonishing capitulation.
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.
Hence, I suspect, the panic, the lockdown, the capitulation.
The Barzeh truce sparked outrage from commentators aligned with the opposition, who viewed it as little more than capitulation.
U.S. and Israeli hawks are rushing to call the interim nuclear agreement a capitulation and Obama another Chamberlain.
But what negotiation can the naysayers cite, in modern times, that has ever been an outright capitulation?
A successful end to the current talks, in the eyes of the West, would represent not so much compromise as capitulation.
At last the accumulated horrors shook even his firm spirit, and on June 4th a capitulation was agreed on.
During the early months of 1797 he commanded a column at Bologna, and was present at the capitulation of Mantua.
The capitulation was a matter of half an hour, and by nightfall I followed the duke and his escort into the town.
Orders were then given to cease firing, and by one oʼclock the terms of capitulation were being negotiated.
But at ten o'clock in the evening a flag of truce arrived offering a capitulation.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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