surrender
suh ren der
- n acceptance of despair
- n a verbal act of admitting defeat
- n the delivery of a principal into lawful custody
- n the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions)
- v give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another
The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered - v relinquish possession or control over
The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in
- If they choose not to surrender by the Wednesday deadline, the Al Qaeda remnants will have to fight or flee.
- He has already court-martialed so many for desertion or surrender that he can't very well surrender himself.
- The signatures on that surrender documentone flamboyant, one schoolboyishwere actually to alter the relationships between branches of the human race.