surrender

IPA: sɝˈɛndɝ

An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
(law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.

(transitive) To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
(military, by extension, transitive) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
(intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
(transitive) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
(reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
(transitive, intransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
(transitive, insurance) For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.

Examples of "surrender" in Sentences

Did the Japanese surrender unconditionally
The dispatch was for the surrender of Memphis.
He surrendered to the enemy at the end of the war.
Unable to carry on the war, the Korellians surrender to the enemy.
The Generals negotiated the terms of surrender in the Hotel de Wereld.
I've lost the war, and I'm trying to negotiate an acceptable surrender.
The following day the leaders at the GPO decided to negotiate surrender.
Germany surrendered unconditionally in May 1945, ending the war in Europe.
She didn't surrender to grief and yielded a solution to the current agenda.
The last stage of the Falklands War was the surrender of the Argentine Governor at Port Stanley.