surrender
has definitions from the field of law
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[ verb ] give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of another
Synonyms Examples "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered" Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Poor where they had once been rich , humbled where they had been arrogant , having no_longer any hope of sharing_in the leadership of the nation , the rebels who would not surrender in spirit drew comfort from the sympathy they felt extended to them by the mother_country . (Jim Berry Pearson, The Maxwell Land Grant....)Arriving at daybreak , they found Julio in his corral and demanded that he surrender . Not realizing the seriousness of the wound , the besiegers warned that if he did not surrender the house would be burned_down around him . Related terms |
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[ verb ] relinquish possession or control over
Examples "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in" Used in print (The Detroit News,...)Meanwhile , in Moscow , Khrushchev was adding his bit to the march of world law by promising to build a bomb with a wallop equal_to 100 million tons of TNT , to knock sense into the heads of those backward oafs who can n't see the justice of surrendering West_Berlin to communism . (The Nation, 193: 16...)As we know , the Soviet peasant today still very largely thrives on being able to sell the produce grown on his private plot ; and it is still very far from certain how valid the party 's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable , to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned_into something increasingly like a state farm . |
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[ verb ] relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another
Synonyms Used in print (National Review...)In entering this union we will be surrendering most , if_not all , of our economic autonomy to international bodies such_as the Atlantic_Institute ( recently set_up ) or the O._E._C._D. , I._M._F. and_others . (Frank Murphy, "New Southern Fiction: Urban or Ag...)The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension : the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas . Related terms |
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[ noun ] acceptance of despair
Synonyms Used in print (Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)This air of disengagement carried_over to his apparent attitude toward his things , and people often mistook it for boredom in him or a surrender to repetitious routine . |
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[ noun ] a verbal act of admitting defeat
Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)When we see the steady and methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man 's worthlessness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon , a weapon designed and used time_and_time_again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church-state '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (law) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
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[ noun ] the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions)
Synonyms Examples "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" Related terms |
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