Surrender | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Sur-rên'der, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SURRENDERED; p. pr. & vb. n. SURRENDERING.] [O. Fr. surrender, to deliver; from sur, over, and rendre, to render, q. v.]

To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy, or to commissioners of bankruptcy; to surrender a fort or a ship.
To yield to the possession of another; to give up; to resign; as, to surrender a right or privilege; to surrender the breath.
(Law.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up, as a principal by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
To yield to any influence, passion, or power;—used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.

Sur-rĕn'der, v. i.

verbintransitive

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.

Sur-rĕn'der, n.

noun

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.

Sense 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 a foreign state. See EXTRADITION. Bouvier. Burrill. Wharton.

Sur-rĕn'der, n.

noun

n. The same as SURRENDER. [Obs.]