Category:Surrender

Sur*ren"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surrendered; p. pr. & vb. n. Surrendering.] Etym: [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.

2. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a Right, privilege, or advantage. To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have In them. Hooker.

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.

4. (law)

Defn: 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.

Surrender Sur*ren"der, v. i.

Defn: 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.

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. That he may secure some liberty he makes a surrender in trust of the Whole of it. Burke.

2. (law)

Defn: 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 delivry up oh fugitives from Justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition. Wharton.