surrender
surrender
verb (surrenders, surrendered, surrendered, surrendering)
/səˈrendə(r)/
1 intransitive, transitive to admit that you have been defeated and want to stop fighting; to allow yourself to be caught, taken prisoner, etc.
SYNONYM give in (to somebody/something)
The rebel soldiers were forced to surrender.
surrender to somebody He surrendered voluntarily to his enemies.
surrender yourself (to somebody) The hijackers eventually surrendered themselves to the police.
After three weeks under siege they surrendered completely.
The British formally surrendered on 31 May.
TOPICS War and conflict C1
TOPICS Crime and punishment C1
Collocations
adverb
unconditionally
completely
immediately
verb + surrender
order somebody to
agree to
refuse to
preposition
to
2 (formal) to give up something/somebody when you are forced to
SYNONYM relinquish
surrender something/somebody to somebody He agreed to surrender all claims to the property.
They surrendered their guns to the police.
surrender something/somebody The defendant was released to await trial but had to surrender her passport.
The dictator surrendered power to Parliament.
Phrasal Verbs
surrender to
surrender yourself to
surrender
noun
/səˈrendə(r)/
uncountable, singular
1 ​surrender (to somebody/something) an act of admitting that you have been defeated and want to stop fighting
They demanded (an) unconditional surrender.
He raised his hands in surrender.
The division accepted the surrender of a group of some 500 rebels.
The rebels hoisted the white flag of surrender.
The rebels were offered easy terms of surrender.
The villagers were starved into surrender.
TOPICS War and conflict C1
Collocations War and peace
Collocations Dictionary
adjective
completetotalunconditional…
verb + surrender
demandforce intostarve into…
preposition
surrender to
phrases
a flag of surrenderin surrenderterms of surrender…
2 ​surrender (to something) the fact of allowing yourself to be controlled by something
They accused the government of a surrender to business interests.
​3 surrender of something (to somebody) an act of giving something to somebody else even though you do not want to, especially after a battle, etc.
They insisted on the immediate surrender of all weapons.
Word Origin
late Middle English (chiefly in legal use): from Anglo-Norman French (from sur- and render).