surrender

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  1. transitive verb To relinquish possession or control of to another because of demand or compulsion.
  2. transitive verb To give up in favor of another.
  3. transitive verb To give up or give back (something that has been granted): surrender a contractual right.
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  • Moore theorized that the surrender was a few miles from the actual battleground because Almonte had a hard time persuading the defeated soldiers to stop running. —  Homepage
  • This from Barak Obama who opposed the surge in Iraq and voted against funding troops unless a deadline for their surrender was attached to the funding. —  Latest Articles
  • Far-seeing English statesmen hoped to fish out of the troubled waters an act of national surrender from the Irish Parliament, and were not ill-pleased to see the sky grow darker. —  The Northern Iron
  • I understand that the people of Collatia were thus surrendered, and that the form of the surrender was as follows: the king asked them, "Are ye ambassadors and deputies sent by the people of Collatia to surrender yourselves and the people of Collatia?" —  The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
  • These princes, it will be remembered, were the chieftains of the Punjaub, and their surrender was the signal of annexing that great kingdom to the British empire. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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  1. Middle English surrenderen, from Old French surrendre : sur-, sur- + rendre, to deliver; see render.

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  1. Early modern English surrendre; from Middle English *surrendren, surrenden, from Old French surrendre, give up, from Middle Latin (after Roman) superreddere, give up, from Latin super, over, + reddere, give back, render: see render.
  2. from surrender, v.
 

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