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| surrender | |
| 1. v. To give up into the power, control, or possession of another. |  |
| 2. v. (military, by extension transitive) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy. | |
| 3. v. (intransitive, or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in. | |
| I surrender! | |
| 4. v. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign. | |
| to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage | |
| 5. v. (reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc. | |
| to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep | |
| 6. v. (ambitransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, insurance) For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value. | |
| 8. n. An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation. | |
| 9. n. The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand. | |
| 10. n. (legal, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists. | |
