Bow
Bow verb - To cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control).
Usage example: finally bowed to the judge's insistence that she change her outfit
Surrender is a synonym for bow in behaviour topic. In some cases you can use "Surrender" instead a verb "Bow", when it comes to topics like submit, yield, give in, abase.
Surrender
Surrender verb - To cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control).
Usage example: the father refused to surrender to his son's constant begging for a BB gun
Bow is a synonym for surrender in behaviour topic. You can use "Bow" instead a verb "Surrender", if it concerns topics such as abase, resist.
Nearby Words: surrendered, surrendering
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| light | light bow | light surrender |
| entire | entire bow | entire surrender |
| famous | famous bow | famous surrender |
| white | white bow | white surrender |
| Other adjectives: final, few, last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Since your opponent has no cards, all they can do is watch his life points drains away (and very slowly at that, since Yata only has 200 attack points, which is pitifully low) or bow and surrender.
Source: Cycle of Hurting -
I Surrender, Suckers: Geki pretends to bow down to Mars, only to headbutt a Martian in the stomach.
Source: Anime / Saint Seiya Omega -
The second book, Lords of the Bow, subverted this trope - the Mongols have laid siege to Yenking and are preparing to attack it, but Kokchu persuades Genghis Khan to accept surrender at the last minute.
Source: Final Battle
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