Found 2 hits - Term: surrendered, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
surrender \surren"der\, v. t. imp. p. p. surrendered; p.
pr. vb. n. surrendering. of. surrendre to deliver; sur
over + rendre to render. see sur-, and render.
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.
1913 webster
2. to give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to
surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
1913 webster
to surrender up that right which otherwise their
founders might have in them. --hooker.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
surrendered surrendering sur- render
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
surrendered
adj : given up often unwillingly; "a relinquishment is a piece of
relinquished or abandoned land" syn: relinquished
see also:
relinquished
Results 1 - 1 of 1 found about surrendered: Surrendered
>> S Words
Surrendered, definition of term: Surrendered
surrendered_pag1.html
Last accessed:2008/11/22 07:59:04 [Total processing time: 0 seconds] |