2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Surrendered}; p.
pr & vb n. {Surrendering}.] [OF. surrendre to deliver; sur
over + rendre to render. See {Sur-}, and {Render}.]
1. To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up
possession of anything upon compulsion or demand; as to
surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to
surrender a fort or a ship.
2. To give up possession of to yield; to resign; as to
surrender a right privilege, or advantage.
To surrender up that right which otherwise their
founders might have in them --Hooker.
3. To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; --
used reflexively; as to surrender one's self to grief, to
despair, to indolence, or to sleep.
4. (Law) To yield; to render or deliver up to give up as a
principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice
by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant
thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
surrendered
adj : given up often unwillingly; "a relinquishment is a piece of
relinquished or abandoned land" [syn: {relinquished}]
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