surrender

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
12
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/səˈɹɛndə(ɹ)/
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/səˈɹɛndə(ɹ)/ · /səˈɹɛndɚ/

Definition of surrender

10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
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verb

  1. (transitive)To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
  2. (broadly, transitive)To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
  3. (intransitive, reflexive)To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
    “Don't shoot! I surrender!”
  4. (transitive)To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
    “to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage”
  5. (reflexive)To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
    “to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep”
  6. (ambitransitive)To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
  7. (transitive)For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
  2. (countable, uncountable)The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
  3. (countable, uncountable)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.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Etymology tree Middle English surrendren English surrender From Middle English surrendren, from Old French surrendre, from sur- + rendre (“render”). Displaced native Old English on hand gān.

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