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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Seduction :: Seduction (n.) The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity..
Extradition :: Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
Capitulate :: Capitulate (v. t.) To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions..
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..
Overgive :: Overgive (v. t.) To give over; to surrender; to yield.
Cession :: Cession (n.) A yielding, or surrender, as of property or rights, to another person; the act of ceding..
Concede :: Concede (v. t.) To yield or suffer; to surrender; to grant; as, to concede the point in question..
Render :: Render (v. t.) To give up; to yield; to surrender.
Remission :: Remission (n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up..
Surrendry :: Surrenderor (n.) One who makes a surrender, as of an estate..
Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..
Surrender :: 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..
Timeserving :: Timeserving (n.) An obsequious compliance with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power, which implies a surrender of one's independence, and sometimes of one's integrity..
Consign :: Consign (v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.
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..
Resign :: Resign (v. t.) To sign back; to return by a formal act; to yield to another; to surrender; -- said especially of office or emolument. Hence, to give up; to yield; to submit; -- said of the wishes or will, or of something valued; -- also often used reflexively..
Unconditional :: Unconditional (a.) Not conditional limited, or conditioned; made without condition; absolute; unreserved; as, an unconditional surrender..
Remit :: Remit (v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
Render :: Render (n.) A surrender.
Reddition :: Reddition (n.) Restoration: restitution: surrender.
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