Surrender and Warfare

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Surrender noun - The usually forced yielding of one's person or possessions to the control of another.

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Warfare is an antonym for surrender.

Nearby Words: surrendered, surrendering

Warfare noun - A lack of agreement or harmony.

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Surrender is an antonym for warfare in armed conflict topic.

complete	complete surrender	complete warfare
total	total surrender	total warfare
serious	serious surrender	serious warfare
permanent	permanent surrender	permanent warfare
Other adjectives: bloody, outright.

This is actually against the Hague Convention because it makes acceptance of genuine surrender impossible, thus ensuring a perpetual state of warfare.

Source: I Surrender, Suckers
In medieval warfare it was the norm that a besieged town would surrender after the walls were breached.

Source: Obligatory War Crime Scene
And for these companies, warfare mostly revolves around maneuvering around each other until one side ends up in a completely hopeless situation (and would certainly lose if fighting starts)—whereupon that side will peacefully surrender.

Source: Non-Lethal Warfare

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