Engage and Surrender

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Engage verb - To hold the attention of.

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Surrender is an antonym for engage in topics: attack, use, engross, interconnect, promise to marry.

Nearby Words: engagement, engaging, engagingly

Surrender verb - To give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress.

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Engage is an antonym for surrender.

Nearby Words: surrendered, surrendering

army	engage army	surrender army
way	engage way	surrender way
battle	engage battle	surrender battle
weapon	engage weapon	surrender weapon
Other words: ship, fleet, duel, times, forces, powers, guns, ships.

The King had told them that the Humas Kingdom wanted the Evila to surrender and didn't want to engage them.

Source: Light Novel / The Unique Cheat Of The Man Dragged In By The Four Heroes
Played straight in one scene where you are supposed to surrender to the enemy and cannot escape the spot where they engage you even though it is fenced with nothing but waist-high blocks.

Source: Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence aka: Insurmountable Waist High Fence
They will still force you to engage, futilely launch their few remaining surface-to-space missiles at your ships, and make you finish the job because the game just doesn't have any planetary surrender feature.

Source: Suicidal Overconfidence

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