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surrendering |
1 definition 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.
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