Surrender /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Surrendered; p. pr. & vb. n. Surrendering

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.

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. 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. (Law)

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.

2. The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion. (Law)
3. The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value). (Insurance)