SURRENDER
\səɹˈɛndə], \səɹˈɛndə], \s_ə_ɹ_ˈɛ_n_d_ə]\
Definitions of SURRENDER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a verbal act of admitting defeat
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the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
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give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of another; "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).
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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.
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To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
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To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.
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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.
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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.
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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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The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
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The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
By Oddity Software
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The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).
By Noah Webster.
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The act of giving up oneself or a thing into the possession of another.
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To yield to the power of another; give up possession of on compulsion; as, to surrender an army; give up; as, to surrender one's claim to property; to yield to any influence, emotion, or power; as, to surrender oneself to sorrow.
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To yield; give up oneself or a thing into the power of another.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To render or deliver over: to resign.
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To yield up one's self to another.
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Act of yielding, or giving up to another.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald