Defend and Surrendered

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Defend verb - To drive danger or attack away from.

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Surrendered is an antonym for defend.

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Defend is an antonym for surrendered in resign topic.

Nearby Words: surrender, surrendering

Subverted in that 80% of the pilots were assigned to defend against Operation Downfall, so they lived because Japan surrendered before they could fly their missions.

Source: Suicide Mission
And The Russian Communist Party surrendered to Germany because they disbanded the army and discovered, to their shock, that their volunteer citizen-militias weren't good enough (unlike the Imperial Army had been) to defend them from the Germans.

Source: World War II / War In Europe And Africa

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