Apologizing beforehand if my question makes no sense...just something that popped into my mind. Anyway, you know, sometimes you hear in movies or other things, someone might say "give up and accept defeat." Just because you accept defeat, does that really mean you gave up?
2006-10-16 05:48:31 · 7 answers · asked by LibraT 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
One doesn't necessarily mean the other, but if you give up, you have accepted defeat. However, you can accept defeat after giving everything you have and you are only acknowledging that you need to improve something. If you keep working toward making that improvement, you haven't given up at all; you're just saving the battle for another day.
2006-10-16 05:57:27 · answer #1 · answered by loislanepoet 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
they are two very distinct ideas. A person may give up trying but never live to accept the defeat s/he was made to face. A person may accept a defeat but only temporarily just as when one loses a battle but not a war... but both together have a very powerful sense of an event being finite, you gave up with no intention of going back and you have accepted the defeat as when u feel that the loss can not be overcome in any way.
2006-10-19 02:40:20 · answer #2 · answered by MAC C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you accept defeat, you certainly are giving up the fight. 'Give up' and ' accept defeat' mean the same thing, you can say one without the other.
A direct answer is no. You can't accept defeat but not give up.
2006-10-16 05:59:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well yeah kinda (this is a guess on my part). Because if you give up it means you have already accepted defeat. I have one for you. A mixed blessing is a blessing with a down side. Think about that! Is it really a blessing if there is a down side.
2006-10-16 05:58:08 · answer #4 · answered by dmgoldsbo7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess so. I think that in order to accept defeat you would have to decide not to try and prevent it anymore which would be giving up.
2006-10-16 05:57:08 · answer #5 · answered by Tallulah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You ever heard the saying, "Live to fight another day" ? That means losing the battle, but living for the war. In a war, its not just one straight up carnage till the end fight. There are several skirmishes that make up the total war.
With movies, there isn't really much of a meaning to it probably. Its just a dramatic way of saying, "You've lost, now you die."
2006-10-16 06:00:48 · answer #6 · answered by twilight_pisces 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A PERSON RUNNING FROM THE AUTHORITIESIS BEING TOLD TO GIVE UP THE CHASE. "OK, I GIVE UP, BUT I AM NOT GUILTY. AND MY SURRENDER DOESN'T MEAN I AM GUILTY".
2006-10-16 07:55:58 · answer #7 · answered by the sealer 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋