surrender
IPA: sɝˈɛndɝ
noun
- 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.
verb
- (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.
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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 notion of surrender is of course central to your story, as your title implies.
- The word surrender frightens some because it calls to mind losing a battle or spinelessness.
- So often the word surrender is associated with what we have to give up instead of what we get.
- The last stage of the Falklands War was the surrender of the Argentine Governor at Port Stanley.
- Minority Leader Mitch McConnell hailed the passage of a bill that did not include what he called surrender dates.
- Fox, CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN and Republicans, listen up and listen tight, surrender is not a word any American takes lightly.
- He blamed the Amarnath land controversy in J& K on the Congress-led coalition for what he called surrender to separatists agenda.
- They don't want to use the term surrender but they are not calling them "peace envoys," a term used by the PKK and affiliated media organizations.
- With one tistle-head, and a nettle or two, he could make a soupe for twenty guests — an haunch of a little puppy-dog made a roti des plus excellens; but his coupe de maitre was when the rendition — what you call the surrender, took place and appened; and then, dieu me damme, he made out of the hind quarter of one salted horse, forty-five couverts; that the English and Scottish officers and nobility, who had the honour to dine with Monseigneur upon the rendition, could not tell what the devil any of them were made upon at all.
- With one tistle-head, and a nettle or two, he could make a soupe for twenty guests -- an haunch of a little puppy-dog made a roti des plus excellens; but his coupe de maitre was when the rendition -- what you call the surrender, took place and appened; and then, dieu me damme, he made out of the hind quarter of one salted horse, forty-five couverts; that the English and Scottish officers and nobility, who had the honour to dine with Monseigneur upon the rendition, could not tell what the devil any of them were made upon at all.