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# surrendered

«surrendered» in Mova's school dictionary: **gave up in a fight or war and stopped fighting** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (past form of surrender: surrender, surrenders, surrendered, surrendering); adjective (a surrendered pet)

### meaning for a pupil

1) gave up in a fight or war and stopped fighting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#m1)

2) handed something over, often because you must ("surrendered his passport"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#m2)

3) (euphemism, official) of a pet: given up by its owner to an animal shelter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Military and everyday sense for giving up; in animal shelters, a gentle official word for a pet the owner could not keep. All regions.

### examples

- The army surrendered at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x1)
- The dog was surrendered to the shelter when its owner moved. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x2)
- He surrendered his phone to the teacher. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x3)
- Many rabbits are surrendered after the holidays. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x4)
- The robber surrendered to the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x5)
- The shelter takes in surrendered cats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x6)
- Then the bird surrendered at once, and begged to be taken into Momotaro’s company. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x7)

### note

Several senses. A surrendered pet is not lost or stray; its owner gave it up. In maths, surrendered animals may be added to a shelter's total.

### 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/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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