Word Finder - surrender

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An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.

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The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.

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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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To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.

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(by extension) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.

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To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.

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I surrender!

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To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.

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to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage

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To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.

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to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep

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To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.

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For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.

She'd never felt a surrender like his.

I said a creature who has never known peace will surrender unconditionally when he tastes it for the first time.

Carmen coaxed him to surrender it to her hand.

He shook his head in surrender, and his voice softened.

Jackson put both hands up in surrender and chuckled.

On the smallest of chances she was alive, she would've had to find a loophole to surrender her duty without losing her soul.

The others who could do so drove away too, leaving those who could not to surrender or die.

He stepped back to surrender Destiny.

It was a well-known fact that Mrs. O'Hara would never surrender her kitchen to a maid, so the alibi passed as genuine.

When she was told of the surrender of the brave little people, her face clouded and she was silent a few minutes.

A surrender from someone like this was the kind of challenge he needed.

In 1360 it passed by the treaty of Bretigny from French to English hands, and its governor was murdered by Gaston Phoebus viscount of Beam, for refusing to surrender it to the count of Anjou.

He'd felt her surrender in their final kiss.

Thebes was forced to surrender and razed to the ground.

When surrender became inevitable he fled to England, which he had previously visited in quest of succour.

Johnston in North Carolina, the command of the whole of General Lee's cavalry devolved upon Fitzhugh Lee early in 1865, but the surrender of Appomattox followed quickly upon the opening of the campaign.

Already, in 1613, the English from Virginia had almost completely wiped out the French settlement at Port Royal, and when in 1629 a small English fleet appeared at Quebec, Champlain was forced to surrender.

Sir William Phips sailed from Boston in 1690, conquered Acadia, now Nova Scotia, and then hazarded the greater task of leading a fleet up the St Lawrence against Quebec. On the 16th of October 1690 thirty-four English ships, some of them only fishing craft, appeared in its basin and demanded the surrender of the town.

After prolonged discussions the company agreed to surrender to the crown, in consideration of a payment of £300,000, the rights and interests in the north-west guaranteed by its charter, with the exception of a reservation of one-twentieth part of the fertile belt, and 45,00 0 acres of land adjacent to the trading posts of the company.

She was cut to pieces and forced to surrender, after suffering heavy loss, and inflicting very little on the "Constitution."

The Sequani then appealed to Caesar, who drove back the Germans (58), but at the same time obliged the Sequani to surrender all that they had gained from the Aedui.

El Motamid, who had fought bravely, was weak enough to order his sons to surrender the fortresses they still held, in order to save his own life.

The emperors of Russia and Austria were still far away at the time of Napoleon's second abdication, and it was with Wellington that the commissioners of the provisional government opened negotiations preliminary to the surrender of Paris.

In 1351 it was obliged to surrender to Florence, and thenceforth shared its fate.

Porter (1804-1828), who was killed before the ship's surrender.

The result of the congress, however, was not unfavourable to the new kingdom, which received East Friesland, the secularized bishopric of Hildesheim, the city of Goslar, and some smaller additions of territory, in return for the surrender of the greater part of the duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg to Prussia.

Representation was granted to the peasants; the two chambers were empowered to initiate legislation; ministers were made responsible for all acts of government; a civil list was given to the king in return for the surrender of the crown lands; and, in short, the new constitution was similar to that of Great Britain.

By the terms of this surrender the king was not to reside in Hanover, his officers were to take no further part in the war, and his ammunition and stores became the property of Prussia.

On the appearance of Murat's horse artillery, however, they had to surrender at once.

To have been married a second time disqualified for ordination, or for continued tenure of the office of bishop. In all the action of the church unanimity was considered to be necessary; if any member differed in opinion from the rest, he must either surrender his judgment to that of the church, or be shut out from its communion.

The battle was drawn, but it led to the retreat of the crusaders on Damietta, and to the surrender of St Louis.

From 1707 to 1709 the war on his part was purely defensive; Charles would not hear of peace till full restitution had been made and a war indemnity paid, while Peter was fully resolved to perish rather than surrender his "paradise," Petersburg.

In 1226 he was appointed chancellor by the council governing during the minority of Henry III.; and when the king in 1236 demanded the return of the great seal, Neville refused to surrender it, on the ground that only the authority that had appointed him to the office had power to deprive him of it.

Dole sent a reply to Willis, declining to surrender the authority of the provisional government to the deposed queen.

On Trochu's resignation he was appointed to the supreme command, in which capacity he had to negotiate the surrender.

The alliance at first resulted only in compelling the surrender of a few unimportant fortresses in the Romagna; but Julius freed Perugia and Bologna in the brilliant campaign of 1506.

Fort Sumter, in Charleston harbour, had been besieged by the secessionists since January; and, it being now on the point of surrender through starvation, Lincoln sent the besiegers official notice on the 8th of April that a fleet was on its way to carry provisions to the fort, but that he would not attempt to reinforce it unless this effort were resisted.

Voluntary acceptance of shared practices is not a surrender of autonomy.

The laundry room was also clean and an old wringer tub still sat in one corner, as though unwilling to completely surrender to modern appliances.

Her heart beat rapidly at what it meant to surrender what had been her one hope to leave Hell.

Later, in that languid time between lovemaking and the usual surrender to sleep, Cynthia remained awake.

Only silence remained as he lay there, wanting to escape from all that was happening, surrender in the peace of sleep, but even sleep eluded him.

For a few moments she resisted the temptation to surrender, but his embrace was electrifying and she found herself passionately returning his affection.

Georgia likewise claimed all the lands between the 31st and 35th parallels from its present western boundary to the Mississippi river, and did not surrender its claim until 1802; two years later the boundaries of the Mississippi Territory were extended so as to include all of the Georgia cession.

On the following day with Ioo horsemen he went out to the same tomb and obtained the unconditional surrender of the three princes, who had been left behind on the previous occasion.

Conveyed hither in June 1567 after her surrender at Carberry, she signed her abdication within its walls on the 4th of July and effected her escape on the 2nd of May 1568.

The crusade excited no enthusiasm in Hungary, but Andrew contrived to collect 15,000 men together, whom he led to Venice; whence, not without much haggling and the surrender of all the Hungarian claims upon Zara, about two-thirds of them were conveyed to Acre.

Now, when in surrendering theology and metaphysics we have also to surrender God and the soul, we are not free from materialism.

Nevertheless, the world cannot afford to surrender itself to Aristotle, or to Aquinas.

Next day the siege begins, and after forty days the famished inhabitants urge the governor Ozias to surrender, which he consents to do unless relieved in five days.