Definition of surrender

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Surrender (n.) The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right..

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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..
Capitulate :: Capitulate (v. t.) To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions..
Amain :: Amain (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield..
Surrendering :: Surrendered (imp. & p. p.) of Surrende.
Remise :: Remise (n.) A giving or granting back; surrender; return; release, as of a claim..
Yield :: Yield (v. i.) To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
Consign :: Consign (v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.
Inalienable :: Inalienable (a.) Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright..
Remittitur :: Remittitur (n.) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages..
Backdown :: Backdown (n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.
Expropriation :: Expropriation (n.) The act of expropriating; the surrender of a claim to exclusive property; the act of depriving of ownership or proprietary rights.
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..
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..
Put :: Put (v. t.) To lay down; to give up; to surrender.
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..
Submission :: Submission (n.) The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.
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..
Resignation :: Resignation (n.) The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission..
Surrenderer :: Surrenderee (n.) The person to whom a surrender is made.
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