surrender has definitions from the field of law
1
[ verb ] give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of another

Synonyms

give_up

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 .

2
[ verb ] relinquish possession or control over

Synonyms

give_up deliver cede

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 .

3
[ verb ] relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another

Synonyms

relinquish

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

yield abnegate relinquishment

4
[ noun ] acceptance of despair

Synonyms

resignation

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 .

Related terms

despair defeatism resign

5
[ noun ] a verbal act of admitting defeat

Synonyms

giving_up yielding

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

relinquishment

6
[ verb ] hand over to the authorities of another country

Examples

"They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"

Related terms

expel repatriate exile

7
[ noun ] (law) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody

Related terms

delivery extradition

8
[ noun ] the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions)

Synonyms

fall capitulation

Examples

"they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"

Related terms

loss fall capitulate

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