surrender
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 9
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Definition of surrender
10 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (transitive)To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
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verb
- (transitive)To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
- (broadly, transitive)To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
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(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!”
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(transitive)To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
“to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage”
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(reflexive)To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
“to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep”
- (ambitransitive)To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
- (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
- (countable, uncountable)An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
- (countable, uncountable)The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
- (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.
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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.
Words you can make from surrender
147 playable · top: ENDURERS (9 pts)
Best play endurers 9 points8-letter words
1 word7-letter words
5 words6-letter words
16 words5-letter words
38 words- DEERS 6 pts
- DENES 6 pts
- DENSE 6 pts
- DREES 6 pts
- DRUSE 6 pts
- DUNES 6 pts
- DURES 6 pts
- DURNS 6 pts
- DURRS 6 pts
- ENDER 6 pts
- ENDUE 6 pts
- ERRED 6 pts
- NEEDS 6 pts
- NERDS 6 pts
- NUDER 6 pts
- NUDES 6 pts
- NURDS 6 pts
- REDES 6 pts
- REEDS 6 pts
- RENDS 6 pts
- RUDER 6 pts
- SEDER 6 pts
- SERED 6 pts
- SUEDE 6 pts
- UNDEE 6 pts
- UNDER 6 pts
- ENSUE 5 pts
- ENURE 5 pts
- ERNES 5 pts
- NURSE 5 pts
- RERUN 5 pts
- REUSE 5 pts
- RUERS 5 pts
- RUNES 5 pts
- SERER 5 pts
- SNEER 5 pts
- SURER 5 pts
- UNSEE 5 pts
4-letter words
49 words- DEER 5 pts
- DEES 5 pts
- DENE 5 pts
- DENS 5 pts
- DERE 5 pts
- DREE 5 pts
- DUES 5 pts
- DUNE 5 pts
- DUNS 5 pts
- DURE 5 pts
- DURN 5 pts
- DURR 5 pts
- ENDS 5 pts
- NEED 5 pts
- NERD 5 pts
- NUDE 5 pts
- NURD 5 pts
- REDE 5 pts
- REDS 5 pts
- REED 5 pts
- REND 5 pts
- RUDE 5 pts
- RUED 5 pts
- SEED 5 pts
- SEND 5 pts
- SNED 5 pts
- SUED 5 pts
- SURD 5 pts
- UNDE 5 pts
- URDS 5 pts
- USED 5 pts
- ERNE 4 pts
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- RUER 4 pts
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- SEEN 4 pts
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- SENE 4 pts
- SERE 4 pts
- SUER 4 pts
- SURE 4 pts
- URNS 4 pts
- USER 4 pts
3-letter words
27 words2-letter words
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