Surrender

[sə'rendə] or [sə'rɛndɚ]

Definition

(noun.) the delivery of a principal into lawful custody.

(verb.) give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another; 'The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered'.

(verb.) relinquish possession or control over; 'The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in'.

Checker: Louie--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

(v. t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.

(v. t.) 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.

(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.

(v. i.) 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.

(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.

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

(n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.

(n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.

Inputed by Gretchen

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Relinquish, cede, yield, resign, forego, abdicate, abandon, give up, give over, deliver up, part with.

v. n. Yield, CAPITULATE, give up, give over, give in, give one's self up, strike one's flag or colors, cry quarter, cry quits.

n. Relinquishment, renunciation, cession, resignation, abandonment, CAPITULATION.

Checker: Muriel

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Yield, submit, cede, relinquish, abandon, resign

ANT:Withhold, vindicate, retain, resist, contend, strive

Edited by Angelina

Definition

v.t. to deliver over: to resign.—v.i. to yield up one's self to another.—n. act of yielding or giving up to another.—ns. Surrenderee′ one to whom a legal surrender is made; Surren′derer one who surrenders; Surren′deror (law) one who makes a surrender; Surren′dry Surren′dery (obs.) a surrender.

Checker: Mimi