Definition of surrender

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Surrender (v. t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage..

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Seduction :: Seduction (n.) The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong or crime of persuading a woman to surrender her chastity..
Submit :: Submit (v. t.) To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun..
Dedition :: Dedition (n.) The act of yielding; surrender.
Divestiture :: Divestiture (n.) The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc..
Kohnur :: Kohnur (n.) A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and Persian rulers..
Resignation :: Resignation (n.) The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission..
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) 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..
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage..
Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..
Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A formal demand made by one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice.
Surrender :: Surrender (v. t.) 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..
Consign :: Consign (v. i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.
Extradition :: Extradition (n.) The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one State or sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.
Amain :: Amain (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield..
Cession :: Cession (n.) The voluntary surrender of a person's effects to his creditors to avoid imprisonment.
Intrust :: Intrust (v. t.) To deliver (something) to another in trust; to deliver to (another) something in trust; to commit or surrender (something) to another with a certain confidence regarding his care, use, or disposal of it; as, to intrust a servant with one's money or intrust money or goods to a servant..
Expropriate :: Expropriate (v. t.) To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights..
Backdown :: Backdown (n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.
Surrender :: Surrender (n.) 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..
Surrender :: Surrender (n.) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
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