Dictionary Entry
surrender
surrender is a 9-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 15 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
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.
- 2transitive verb
To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
- 3transitive verb
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.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5intransitive verb
To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.
- 6noun
The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.
- 7noun
The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
- 8noun
The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
- 9noun
The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
- 10noun
the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
"they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"
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- 11noun
the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
- 12noun
a verbal act of admitting defeat
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- 13noun
acceptance of despair
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- 14verb
give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
"The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered"
- 15verb
relinquish possession or control over
"The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"
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