"strike one's colors" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strikes one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "striking one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "struck one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "struck one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stricken one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "strike<,,struck> one's colors",
        "past_ptc2": "stricken one's colors"
      },
      "expansion": "strike one's colors (third-person singular simple present strikes one's colors, present participle striking one's colors, simple past struck one's colors, past participle struck one's colors or stricken one's colors)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "strike one's flag"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 25:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04",
          "text": "Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of strike one's flag"
      ],
      "id": "en-strike_one's_colors-en-verb-E3HB8e16",
      "links": [
        [
          "strike one's flag",
          "strike one's flag#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strike one's colors"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "strikes one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "striking one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "struck one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "struck one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stricken one's colors",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "strike<,,struck> one's colors",
        "past_ptc2": "stricken one's colors"
      },
      "expansion": "strike one's colors (third-person singular simple present strikes one's colors, present participle striking one's colors, simple past struck one's colors, past participle struck one's colors or stricken one's colors)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "strike one's flag"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 25:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 2022-08-04",
          "text": "Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of strike one's flag"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "strike one's flag",
          "strike one's flag#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "strike one's colors"
}