Resistance
Surrender
Surrender noun - The usually forced yielding of one's person or possessions to the control of another.
Usage example: the police demanded the surrender of all hostages as a condition for allowing the hijackers safe passage out of the country
Resistance is an antonym for surrender.
Nearby Words: surrendered, surrendering
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Norway did not get an exceptional amount of publicity but both held out longer that France from invasion to defeat/surrender and had an active resistance going throughout the entire war.
Source: La Resistance / Real Life -
A subsequent expedition faces stiffer resistance, culminating in bloody street fighting in Buenos Aires and the surrender of British troops.
- When a local resistance leader hands one of the lieutenants his knife as a token of surrender, it is immediately pressed into service as a cheese slicer.
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