Definition of surrender

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Surrender (v. t.) To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship..

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Cession :: Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Reddition :: Reddition (n.) Restoration: restitution: surrender.
Surrendering :: Surrendered (imp. & p. p.) of Surrende.
Extradition :: Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
Surrenderor :: Surrenderer (n.) One who surrenders.
Capitulation :: Capitulation (n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of delivering up or over; surrender; transfer of the body or substance of a thing; distribution; as, the delivery of a fort, of hostages, of a criminal, of goods, of letters..
Starve :: Starve (v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender..
Remission :: Remission (n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up..
Put :: Put (v. t.) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
Slave :: Slave (n.) One who has lost the power of resistance; one who surrenders himself to any power whatever; as, a slave to passion, to lust, to strong drink, to ambition..
Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..
Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion..
Rendition :: Rendition (n.) The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war..
Seduce :: Seduce (v. t.) Specifically, to induce to surrender chastity; to debauch by means of solicitation..
Remittal :: Remittal (n.) A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits..
Submit :: Submit (v. t.) To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun..
Surrender :: Surrender (v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons..
Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..
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