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Synonyms for capitulation
kəˌpɪtʃ əˈleɪ ʃənca·pit·u·la·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
capitulation
Synonyms:
abandonment, betrayal, desertion, flight, surrenderAntonyms:
apology, bulwark, defense, fortress, guard, justification, protection, rampart, resistance, safeguard, shelter, shield, vindication
Princeton's WordNet
capitulationnoun
a document containing the terms of surrender
capitulationnoun
a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic
capitulation, fall, surrendernoun
the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
"they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"
Synonyms:
gloaming, giving up, autumn, declension, drop, pin, surrender, gloam, downfall, crepuscle, descent, yielding, decline, declination, downslope, declivity, dip, fall, resignation, tumble, crepuscule, dusk, free fall, spill, evenfall, nightfall, twilight
Dictionary of English Synonymes
capitulationnoun
Synonyms:
surrender (by treaty)
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "capitulation":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1232 | fall | |
#2061 | flight | |
#2158 | drop | |
#3071 | pin | |
#5615 | decline | |
#6341 | autumn | |
#9094 | dip | |
#10122 | twilight | |
#11564 | surrender | |
#11777 | spill | |
#13070 | descent | |
#15150 | resignation | |
#17934 | tumble | |
#18076 | dusk | |
#18856 | yielding | |
#22574 | abandonment | |
#23708 | betrayal | |
#27947 | downfall | |
#38177 | declination | |
#49878 | nightfall | |
#66580 | desertion | |
#80167 | capitulation | |
#86413 | abdication | |
#116269 | downslope | |
#117527 | declension | |
#145906 | crepuscule | |
#185304 | gloaming | |
#253199 | declivity | |
#327568 | evenfall |
How to use capitulation in a sentence?
You can only fool most of the people some of the time, every capitulation [congressional Republicans] engage in, every primary they win by getting across the finish line and they don't do what they've promised — it becomes that much tougher for them to defend.
But it does suggest a capitulation in investor confidence in the ability of central banks to reflate global growth or prevent another downturn. And that's not a good confidence signal.
Back (in 2012) there was a deal which was on the horizon, and there was a ramp off for all sides in a face-saving manner, this time the deal which was reached has been abrogated and the demands of the US go far beyond the nuclear issue to in effect demand total Iranian capitulation.
Now's a time to hold firm, i think it's getting close to the time to double down, if you will, on better bets, but I'd like to see truthfully more of a capitulation out there.
A lot of the fast-money types had recently been trying to catch a falling knife, and some of these stocks started to look OK. But today looks like a complete capitulation, where guys can’t stomach the pain of regulatory uncertainty. People have just given up.
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