strike one's flag
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
1
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender.
Example Sentences
- "At length, having lost her fore and main-top-masts, and her mizzen-mast having been shot away to the deck, . . . the English frigate was reduced to the last extremity. Captain Cardan ordered his signal quarter-master to strike the flag."
- "An Austro-Prussian army of 120.000 men . . . is of itself so imposing a spectacle that one is tempted to believe the little Kingdom of Denmark will strike its flag without firing a shot."
- "The enemy having yielded to our mercy and struck their flag, we ceased our fire, and thinking the worst over and done, I watched where Belvedere conned the ship with voice and gesture."
- "The point of this exercise wouldn't be to cause one side of the argument to see that the other is correct and strike their flag."