White-flag Synonyms

Flag consisting of a piece of white cloth that is hoisted to signal surrender or to ask for a truce
Synonyms:
  1. flag of truce
  2. backing down
  3. capitulation
  4. caving-in
  5. giving-in
  6. retreat
  7. throwing in the towel
  8. truce flag
  9. submission
  10. unconditional-surrender

White-flag Sentence Examples

  • Are you blowing your nose or waving a white flag?

  • The flag that you are standing under now is the white flag of surrender.

  • But then suddenly one of them was up there in his gray greatcoat and waving a white flag.

  • They include an old woman with a bullet wound -- still clutching a white flag when aid workers found her.

  • I had my final drunk and the next day the white flag went up and I was off to the detox center, scared to death.

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