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

1. transitive 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.
2. transitive verb. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
3. transitive 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.
4. transitive 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.
5. intransitive 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.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
8. noun. The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.
9. noun. The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
10. noun. the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)

    "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"

    Synonyms: capitulation, fall

11. noun. the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
12. noun. a verbal act of admitting defeat

    Synonyms: yielding

13. noun. acceptance of despair

    Synonyms: resignation

14. verb. give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another

    "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered"

15. verb. relinquish possession or control over

    "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"

    Synonyms: cede, deliver

Synonyms

capitulation, fall, yielding, resignation, cede, deliver

Common word forms

surrenders, surrendered, surrenderer, surrendering

Words from these letters

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