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# surrender

«surrender» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stop fighting and admit you are beaten** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (surrender, surrenders, surrendered, surrendering); noun (surrender)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To surrender is to stop fighting and admit you are beaten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#m1)

2) To surrender something is to give it up or hand it over, often because you are made to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#m2)

3) (formal) Surrender is the act of giving up or handing over. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons armies surrender at the end of battles. In stories: "I surrender!" when someone gives up. In formal rules: "surrender your phone at the door". Phrases: surrender to, unconditional surrender, raise a white flag.

### examples

- The army surrendered at last. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#x1)
- "I surrender!" laughed Dad in the pillow fight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#x2)
- Please surrender your phones before the exam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#x3)
- They waved a white flag to show surrender. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#x4)
- The thief surrendered to the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#x5)
- He would not surrender his seat to anyone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#x6)
- She surrendered to sleep after the long day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#x7)
- The castle surrendered after a long siege. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#x8)
- Surrender at once, and I will take you with me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/#x9)

### note

Regular verb: surrendered. Spelling: double r. Similar: give in, give up, yield. Formal register in rules and exams.

### In the corpora

- ["Surrendered" means a pet was given up to an animal shelter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/18-pets-and-money/15/)
- ["Give up" means stop trying; "give in" means hand in, and it can also mean surrender.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/7/)
- [How shall I surrender thee, Israel?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/HOS.162/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «surrender» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrender/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.