Definition of surrender

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Surrender (n.) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.

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Coupe-gorge :: Coupe-gorge (n.) Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.
Cessionary :: Cessionary (a.) Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt..
Dedition :: Dedition (n.) The act of yielding; surrender.
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..
Remittitur :: Remittitur (n.) A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages..
Require :: Require (v. t.) To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property..
Maintain :: Maintain (v. t.) To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.
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..
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..
Surrenderor :: Surrenderer (n.) One who surrenders.
Summoner :: Summon (v. t.) To call upon to surrender, as a fort..
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..
Sacrifice :: Sacrifice (n.) Destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; devotion of some desirable object in behalf of a higher object, or to a claim deemed more pressing; hence, also, the thing so devoted or given up; as, the sacrifice of interest to pleasure, or of pleasure to interest..
Yield :: Yield (v. i.) To give up the contest; to submit; to surrender; to succumb.
Abandon :: Abandon (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender..
Remission :: Remission (n.) The act of remitting, surrendering, resigning, or giving up..
Capitulation :: Capitulation (n.) The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.
Surrender :: 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..
Amain :: Amain (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield..
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