Reject
Reject verb - To be unwilling to grant.
Surrender
Surrender verb - To give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit).
Usage example: determined to give up smoking, she so far has not surrendered to her incessant desire to have a cigarette
Nearby Words: surrendered, surrendering
How words are described
| complete | complete reject | complete surrender |
| true | true reject | true surrender |
| last | last reject | last surrender |
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- In FTL: Faster Than Light, enemy ships that you are close to destroying will sometimes plead surrender, offering you rewards for sparing their lives, with the option to reject that and finish off the target instead.
Source: This Is Unforgivable! -
Player has a friend who's an Austrian aristocrat, and he hates the Nazis... but he still thinks the best chance for their defeat is for Britain to surrender, thinking that once the war ends, without a war to fight the German people would reject Nazism.
Source: Series / Colditz
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