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单词 throw in the towel
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throw in the towel

to admit defeat

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Losing and being defeated

  • battering
  • capitulate
  • defeat
  • downfall
  • drubbing
  • fallen
  • give
  • give in
  • go
  • go down
  • knuckle under
  • leave, go off, etc. with your tail between your legs idiom
  • lose
  • say
  • squeaker
  • succumb
  • tail
  • throw
  • tie
  • you win! idiom

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throw in the towel

C2 to stop trying to do something because you have realized that you cannot succeed:

Three of the original five candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination have now thrown in the towel.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Stop having or doing something

  • abdicate
  • bail out
  • bandh
  • break with sth
  • butt out
  • cede
  • drop
  • fly
  • forwent
  • ghost
  • give (sth) up
  • give sb up
  • give sth up as a bad job idiom
  • give up on sb/sth
  • grow
  • self-sacrifice
  • subjugate
  • take a back seat idiom
  • throw (sth) up
  • towel

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throw in the towel

to admit that you are defeated or cannot do something any more:

Jim beat me for the fourth time, so I threw in the towel.
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