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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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..
Capitulation :: Capitulation (n.) The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.
Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..
Traitor :: Traitor (n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason..
Summons :: Summons (v.) A demand to surrender.
Yield :: Yield (v. t.) To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc..
Remittal :: Remittal (n.) A remitting; a giving up; surrender; as, the remittal of the first fruits..
Capitulation :: Capitulation (n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
Submit :: Submit (v. i.) To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
Render :: Render (n.) A surrender.
Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy..
Surrender :: Surrendering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Surrende.
Amain :: Amain (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield..
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep..
Disgorge :: Disgorge (v. t.) To give up unwillingly as what one has wrongfully seized and appropriated; to make restitution of; to surrender; as, he was compelled to disgorge his ill-gotten gains..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy..
Summoner :: Summon (v. t.) To call upon to surrender, as a fort..
Intrust :: Intrust (v. t.) To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant..
Unconditional :: Unconditional (a.) Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender..
Extradition :: Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
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