Surrender and Triumph

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Surrender verb - To yield to the control or power of enemy forces.

Usage example: General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, thus ending the Civil War

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Triumph is an antonym for surrender.

Nearby Words: surrendered, surrendering

Triumph verb - To achieve victory (as in a contest).

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Surrender is an antonym for triumph in topics: achieve, victory.

Nearby Words: triumphant, triumphed, triumphantly, triumphal, triumphing

complete	complete surrender	complete triumph
total	total surrender	total triumph
true	true surrender	true triumph
genuine	genuine surrender	genuine triumph
Other adjectives: great, evil, absolute, famous, possible, final, apparent, bloody, outright, mixed, official, inevitable, last, roman.

Subverted in Babylon 5: Humans bring out every combat-capable ship they've got to the Battle of the Line, but at the hour of their triumph, the genocidal Minbari simply stop and surrender.

Source: The Last Dance
Shoots a villain in the middle of a Breaking Lecture about how evil will ultimately triumph because good is held back by its morals and they have to accept his surrender although they know he will manage to escape...with the words "You must be thinking of a different church."

Source: Bald of Awesome

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