relinquish, yield, resign, surrender, abandon, waive mean to give up completely. relinquish usually does not imply strong feeling but may suggest some regret, reluctance, or weakness.

SURRENDER definition: 1. to stop fighting and admit defeat: 2. If you surrender to an experience or emotion, you stop…. Learn more.

SURRENDER definition: to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress. See examples of surrender used in a sentence.

1. to deliver up or yield (something) to the possession or power of another on demand or under duress: to surrender the fort to the enemy. 2. to give (oneself) up, as to the police. 3. to give (oneself) up to …

Surrender, in military terms, is the relinquishment of control over territory, combatants, fortifications, ships or armament to another power. A surrender may be accomplished peacefully or it may be the …

Nov 23, 2025 · surrender (countable and uncountable, plural surrenders) An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation. The yielding or delivery of a …

an act or instance of surrendering: [uncountable] The Allies are trying to starve the country into surrender. [countable] The enemy signed a formal surrender. See -rend-.

SURRENDER meaning: 1 : to agree to stop fighting, hiding, resisting, etc., because you know that you will not win or succeed often + to; 2 : to give the control or use of (something) to someone else

You use surrender to refer to someone's attitude or behaviour when they lose the will to resist their feelings or the demands of other people.

To surrender is to give up control of something to someone else. If you miss curfew, your parents might make you surrender the keys to the car. Okay, it's only a minivan, but it's still cooler than being on …