[
UK
/səɹˈɛndɐ/
]
[ US /sɝˈɛndɝ/ ]
[ US /sɝˈɛndɝ/ ]
NOUN
- acceptance of despair
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the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
they were protected until the capitulation of the fort - a verbal act of admitting defeat
- the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
VERB
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give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered -
relinquish possession or control over
The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in
How To Use surrender In A Sentence
- By then, the town had been well-fortified and withstood a siege of nine weeks before the Mexicans were forced to surrender from starvation. Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
- NIAGARA FALLS -- A Niagara Falls English teacher has agreed to resign and surrender his teaching certification as part of a plea bargain to charges that he had an improper relationship with a 16-year-old female student. The Buffalo News: Home
- I duly surrendered my little device, only to feel a sudden pang of panic on my way back to my seat. Times, Sunday Times
- Dustin Archibald, 21, of Denham Springs surrendered to Livingston Parish sheriff's deputies on Thursday. Louisiana Trail-Cam Thief Says He Was Protecting Deer
- Such actively passive self-surrender is thus the necessary beginning of the regeneration on which loving union depends. The Times Literary Supplement
- Don't surrender to this dark woeld.
- We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.
- What powers can it realistically reclaim having surrendered control of the club structure in 1992? Times, Sunday Times
- For the British, however, it has all turned to dust, surrendered by the pusillanimous politicians.
- Will sighed and turned around slowly, holding his hands up in a gesture of surrender.