Word Finder - surrendered

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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 surrendered the clippers.

The next morning he retreated, and six days later Mons surrendered.

She never did, and yet she never surrendered either.

Mack has surrendered with his whole army.

She surrendered to his lovemaking, briefly disappointed when he stopped to shut their bedroom door.

A tall young man tapped his shoulder and Alex surrendered her to the second dance of the evening.

She rested one hand on his upper arm and surrendered her other to a hand that engulfed hers.

She surrendered the canteens to him along with a scathing stare.

Yully struggled to control it and then surrendered.

She surrendered to the heat in her blood.

She gave his arm a whack but surrendered the ring.

Katie surrendered the receiver to Carmen and then walked away.

She hadn't quite yet surrendered to her fate at his side; this much he sensed.

He surrendered after a long moment, thrown into a familiar dream.

Of course, that was before she met Alex and surrendered everything in marriage.

She surrendered the bale to him and watched him toss it on top of the pile.

He reached for her shoes and she surrendered them.

She surrendered to a long uneven sigh.

She surrendered to him last night in a way that made his body crave her, something that never happened with the other girls.

On the 18th of July 1542 it was surrendered to Henry VIII., and its possessions granted to Robert Dacres on condition of maintaining the grammar school and paying the master £10 a year, the same salary as the headmasters of Winchester and Eton, and maintaining the almshouse.

She at once quitted Nohant, taking with her Solange, and in 1831 an amicable separation was agreed upon, by which her whole estate was surrendered to the husband with the stipulation that she should receive an allowance of £120 a year.

Leo at once announced that he would excommunicate the king of France and release his subjects from their allegiance unless Francis laid down his arms and surrendered Parma and Piacenza.

Having obtained a papal bull, he founded it by deed of the 12th of June 1458, converting the hospital into a college with a president and six fellows, to which college two days later Magdalen Hall surrendered itself and its possessions, its members being incorporated into "the New College of St Mary Magdalen."

In 1779-1780 about 4000 of Burgoyne's troops, surrendered under the "Convention" of Saratoga, were quartered here; in October 1780 part of them were sent to Lancaster, Pa., and later the rest were sent north.

By the peace of Zapoli (January 15th, 1582) he surrendered Livonia with Polotsk to Bathory, and by the truce of Ilyusa he at the same time abandoned Ingria to the Swedes.

The English, under Sir Thomas Graham, afterwards Lord Lynedoch, in March 1814 made an attempt to take it by a coup de main, but were driven back with great loss by the French, who surrendered the place, however, by the treaty of peace in the following May.

He first went to take possession of the old Lydian capital Sardis, the headquarters of the Persian government on this side of the Taurus, and the strong city surrendered without a blow.

In 1081 the Normans under Robert Guiscard possessed themselves of Durazzo; Guiscard's son Bohemund defeated the Greeks in several battles and again (i 107) laid siege to Durazzo, which had been surrendered to them by treachery; failing to take the city, he retired to Italy in 1109.

In 1478 Kroia, which the Venetians had occupied after Scanderbeg's death, surrendered to Mahommed II., and in 1479 Scutari, after a memorable defence by the Venetians and their Montenegrin allies, was reduced by blockade.

Thus, in 1480, when a Turkish fleet seized Otranto, Matthias, at the earnest solicitation of the pope, sent Balasz Magyar to recover the fortress, which surrendered to him on the 10th of May 1481.

By the concordat of Worms, 1122, the emperor surrendered the right of investiture by ring and staff, and granted the right of election to the clergy.

Melas defeated Championnet near Coni on the 4th of November; and a little later the French garrisons at Ancona and Coni surrendered.

On the 18th of July, however, Gaeta surrendered to Massna, and that marshal, now moving rapidly southwards, extricated Rynier, crushed the Bourbon rising in Calabria with great barbarity, and compelled the British force to re-embark for Sicily.

The whole Austrian army now turned on Vicenza, which after a brave resistance surrendered on the Ioth of June.

On the 19th of June, on the resignation of Lord Clifford, he was appointed lord treasurer and made Baron Osborne of Kiveton and Viscount Latimer in the peerage of England, while on the 27th of June 1674 he was created earl of Danby, when he surrendered his Scottish peerage of Osborne to his second son Peregrine Osborne.

As a guarantee of his good faith the king surrendered the city of London to his foes, while the Tower was entrusted to the neutral keeping of the archbishop of Canterbury.

Manfredi surrendered in April 1501, on the promise that his life should be spared;.

Taken by storm on New Year's day 1813 by the Russians, Lenkoran was in the same year formally surrendered by Persia to Russia by the treaty of Gulistan, along with the khanate of Talysh, of which it was the capital.

In September of that year Cape Town surrendered to the British and the "National" party at Swellendam quietly accepted British rule.

But Philip Howard, the son and heir, succeeded to the ancient earldom of Arundel in 1580, on the death of his maternal grandfather, while the Lord Lumley, his uncle by marriage, surrendered to him his life interest in the castle and honour of Arundel.

He was at once joined by the Percies; and Richard, abandoned by his friends, surrendered at Flint on the 19th of August.

He reached the scene of battle as the last Spanish vessel surrendered, and the engagement was fought in accordance with his instructions.

His young son Jehoiachin surrendered after a three months' reign, with his mother and the court; they were taken away to Babylonia, together with a number of the artisan class (596).

The rebels abode by their decision to stop the daily sacrifice for the emperor; Agrippa's troops capitulated and marched out unhurt; and the Romans, who surrendered on the same condition and laid down their arms, were massacred.

Grabusa, long regarded as an impregnable fortress, was surrendered in 1692, Suda (where the flags of Turkey and the four protecting powers are now hoisted) and Spinalonga in 1715.

In the 14th century it passed to the Courtenays, and in 1698 Sir William Courtenay was confirmed in the right of holding court leet, view of frankpledge and the nomination of a portreeve, these privileges having been surrendered to James II.

The seizure of West Florida was supplemented by the treaty of 1819-1821, in which Spain surrendered all of her claims.

Johnston surrendered near Durham Station, in Durham county, on the 26th.

In 1317 John de Lilleburn, who was holding the castle of Knaresburgh for Thomas duke of Lancaster against the king, surrendered under conditions to William de Ros of Hamelak, but before leaving the castle managed to destroy all the records of the liberties and privileges of the town which were kept in the castle.

He surrendered all his offices and all his preferments except the archbishopric of York, receiving in return a pension of 1000 marks (equal to six or seven thousand pounds a year in modern currency) from the bishopric of Winchester, and retired to his see, which he had never before visited.