Surrender

English 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.

1. To relinquish possession or control of to another because of demand or compulsion.
2. To give up in favor of another.
3. To give up or give back (something that has been granted): surrender a contractual right.
4. To give up or abandon: surrender all hope.
5. To give over or resign (oneself) to something, as to an emotion: surrendered himself to grief.
6. Law To restore (an estate, for example), especially to give up (a lease) before expiration of the term.
7. To give oneself up, as to an enemy.
8. The act or an instance of surrendering.
9. Law The delivery of a prisoner, fugitive from justice, or other principal in a suit into legal custody.
10. Law The act of surrendering or of being surrendered to bail.
11. Law Restoration of an estate.