Refuse and Submit

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Refuse verb - To be unwilling to grant.

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Submit is an antonym for refuse.

Nearby Words: refused, refusal, refusing, refuser

Submit verb - To cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control).

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Refuse is an antonym for submit in comply topic.

Nearby Words: submission, submitted, submitting

person	refuse person	submit person
life	refuse life	submit life
request	refuse request	submit request
idea	refuse idea	submit idea
Other words: order, way, orders, requests.

Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Solid 2 both have their torture sequences wherein you must smash a button to keep from dying if you refuse to submit to it, which affects your ending.

Source: Smashing Survival
In Goblins, Duv declares Dies-Horribly and Saves-a-Fox traitors to goblinkind when they refuse to submit to her goals of goblin supremacy.

Source: Category Traitor
The whole way through, however, Superman is genuinely convinced he is doing the ultimate good for the world and cannot understand why Lex Luthor would so adamantly refuse to submit.

Source: The Evils of Free Will

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