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surrender

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1. surrender - Noun

2. surrender - Verb

Meaning

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.

To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.

The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.

The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task. Livy

Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love. Virgil

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz

To whom you tell your secret you surrender your freedom. Italian Proverb

Hunger and cold surrender a man to his enemy. Portuguese Proverb

Where you tell your secret you surrender your freedom. Portuguese Proverb

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