Found 3 items, similar to surrender.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: surrender menyerah, penyerahan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: surrender surrender n 1: acceptance of despair [syn: resignation] 2: a verbal act of admitting defeat [syn: giving up, yielding] 3: the delivery of a principal into lawful custody 4: the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions); “they were protected until the capitulation of the fort” [syn: capitulation, fall] v 1: give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of another; “The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered” [syn: give up] [ant: resist] 2: relinquish possession or control over; “The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in” [syn: cede, deliver, give up] 3: relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another [syn: relinquish]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Surrender Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surrendered; p. pr. & vb. n. Surrendering.] [OF. surrendre to deliver; sur over + rendre to render. See Sur-, and Render.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage. [1913 Webster] To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have in them. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] 4. (Law) 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. [1913 Webster] Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, v. i. 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. [1913 Webster] Surrender \Sur*ren"der\, n. 1. 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. [1913 Webster] That he may secure some liberty he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 2. (Law) (a) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion. (b) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail. (c) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition. --Wharton. [1913 Webster] 3. (Insurance) The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value). [Webster 1913 Suppl.]