Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who surrenders.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who surrenders.
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- noun one who
surrenders
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who yields or surrenders
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Examples
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I'm sure everyone this morning is going to focus on McCain's comments trying to define Barack Obama as a "surrenderer," while he, McCain, is the big strong guy who will WIN, no matter how many hundreds of years it takes.
McCain Offers to Escort Obama to Iraq - Bad Move for McCain 2008
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The Republicans/RightWingers would go on a rampage of "surrenderer in chief" and "he's spitting on the sacrifice of the troops" and the media would broadcast it on a continuous loop.
Tom Engelhardt: The Afghan Speech Obama Should Give (But Won't) 2009
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But as far as the surrenderer is concerned, whatever may happen brings him closer to what he potentially is.
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As a human being, as a peaceful surrenderer to God alone, I cannot defend injustice, even if it is done against my enemies.
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He went on looking for more regulars to kill, but soon ran up against Cornwallis the surrenderer.
Comic History of the United States Bill Nye 1873
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John Kerry was a french surrenderer who regularly wore flip-flops while hunting from a hang glider.
TIME.com: Top Stories Michael Crowley 2010
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John Kerry was a french surrenderer who regularly wore flip-flops while hunting from a hang glider.
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For Wolff, whatever is caught constitutes both a result and a kind of beginning, in that the task of understanding, integrating and conveying one’s catch commences for the surrenderer as soon as the catch is made.
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I will warrant him hanged and one or two of his fellows, but you must not tell your shirt of this yet; "and when he was congratulating the government on his having at length procured the execution of Captain Hemart, the surrenderer of
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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I will warrant him hanged and one or two of his fellows, but you must not tell your shirt of this yet; "and when he was congratulating the government on his having at length procured the execution of Captain Hemart, the surrenderer of
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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