surrender

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To relinquish possession or control of to another because of demand or compulsion.
2. v. To give up in favor of another.
3. v. To give up or give back (something that has been granted): surrender a contractual right.
4. v. To give up or abandon: surrender all hope.
5. v. To give over or resign (oneself) to something, as to an emotion: surrendered himself to grief.
6. v. Law To restore (an estate, for example), especially to give up (a lease) before expiration of the term.
7. v. To give oneself up, as to an enemy.
8. n. The act or an instance of surrendering.
9. n. Law The delivery of a prisoner, fugitive from justice, or other principal in a suit into legal custody.
10. n. Law The act of surrendering or of being surrendered to bail.
11. n. Law Restoration of an estate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To give back; render again; restore.
2. To give; offer; render.
3. To yield to the power or possession of another; give or deliver up possession of upon compulsion or demand: as, to surrender a fort or a ship.
4. To yield or resign in favor of another; cease to hold or claim; relinquish; resign: as, to surrender a privilege; to surrender an office.
5. In law, to make surrender of. See surrender, n., 3.
6. To yield or give up to any influence, passion, or power: with a reflexive pronoun: as, to surrender one's self to indolence.
7. To yield; give up one's self into the power of another: as, the enemy surrendered at the first summons.
8. n. The act of surrendering; the act of yielding or resigning the possession of something into the power of another; a yielding or giving up: as, the surrender of a city; the surrender of a claim.
9. n. In insurance, the abandonment of an assurance policy by the party assured on receiving a part of the premiums paid. The amount payable on surrender of a policy, called surrender value, depends on the number of years elapsed from the commencement of the risk.
10. n. In law: The yielding up of an estate for life, or for years, to him who has the immediate estate in reversion or remainder. A surrender is of a nature directly opposite to a release; for, as that operates by the greater estate's descending upon the less, a surrender is the falling of a less estate into a greater. (Broom and Hadley.) (See estate.) A surrender in fact or by deed is a surrender made by conveyance. A surrender in law is a surrender implied or resulting by operation of law from the conduct of the parties, such as the accepting of a new and inconsistent lease; it generally has reference to estates or tenancies from year to year, etc.
11. n. The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
12. n. The delivering up of fugitives from justice by a foreign state; extradition.
13. n. In the former English bankruptcy acts, the due appearance before the commissioners of one whom they had declared a bankrupt, in order that he might conform to the law and submit to examination if necessary.

Wiktionary

1. v. To give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically (Military) to yield (land, a town, etc.) to an enemy.
2. v. To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in to.
3. n. An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
4. n. The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
5. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand.
2. v. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
3. v. To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively.
4. v. To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up.
5. v. To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield.
6. n. The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another.
7. n. The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
8. n. The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
9. n. The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
10. n. The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).

WordNet 3.0

1. n. acceptance of despair
2. n. a verbal act of admitting defeat
3. n. the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
4. n. the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
5. v. give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
6. v. relinquish possession or control over