- the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions)
"they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"

- the delivery of a principal into lawful custody

- a verbal act of admitting defeat

- acceptance of despair

- give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of another
"The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered"

- relinquish to the power of another

- yield to the control of another

- relinquish possession or control over
"The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"

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) 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.

1. 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.

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) (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.

1. The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value
).