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Surrender   /sərˈɛndər/   Listen
Surrender

noun
1.
Acceptance of despair.  Synonym: resignation.
2.
A verbal act of admitting defeat.  Synonyms: giving up, yielding.
3.
The delivery of a principal into lawful custody.
4.
The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions).  Synonyms: capitulation, fall.
verb
(past & past part. surrendered; pres. part. surrendering)
1.
Give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another.  Synonym: give up.  Antonym: resist.
2.
Relinquish possession or control over.  Synonyms: cede, deliver, give up.



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"Surrender" Quotes from Famous Books



... although the liberal party was much weaker and the confederacy entirely disbanded. Brederode, no doubt, thought it good generalship to throw the last loaf of bread into the enemy's camp before the city should surrender. His haughty tone was at once taken down by Margaret of Parma. "She wondered," she said, "what manner of nobles these were, who, after requesting, a year before, to be saved only from the inquisition, now presumed to talk about preaching in the cities." The concessions of August had always ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... mercy. No use. Our sex may as well give up first as last before one of these quiet, resolved, little pieces of femininity, who are perfect mistresses of all the peculiar weapons, defensive and offensive, of womanhood. There was nothing for it but to surrender at discretion; but when I had done this, I was granted all the honors of war. Mrs. McIntyre received me with an old-fashioned maternal blessing, and all was as happy ...
— Household Papers and Stories • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... of Groot Willem, Congo entreated him not to make resistance; and so strong seemed his desire that they should surrender without making an effort to maintain their freedom, that he caught hold of the gun which Hendrik had ...
— The Giraffe Hunters • Mayne Reid
... posted there that they were obliged to retire without effecting a landing. Provisions and ammunition were now running short in St. John's, there was no hope whatever of relief from the outside, and the officer commanding was therefore obliged to surrender on November 14, after ...
— True to the Old Flag - A Tale of the American War of Independence • G. A. Henty
... after year and day, the good abbot made humble surrender and destroyed the bath. And behold, His anger was in that moment appeased, and the waters gushed richly forth again, and even unto this day they have not ceased to flow in ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain


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