surrender

1. 1.

   give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another

   “The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered”

   Synonymsgive up

   Antonymsresist

   Broaderyield

   Narrowerabnegateconcedecapitulate
2. 2.

   relinquish possession or control over

   “The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in”

   Synonymscededelivergive up

   Broadergive

   Narroweryield upsellsign away

Other forms of surrender

plural

surrenders·

past tense

surrenderred·

present participle

surrenderring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about surrender

What does surrender mean?

surrender means "acceptance of despair". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in surrender?

surrender has 3 syllables: sur-ren-der. The stress falls on "ren". In IPA it is /sɚˈɛndɚ/.

What is another word for surrender?

Close synonyms include resignation, giving up, yielding, capitulation, fall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of surrender?

The recorded antonyms are resist.

Is surrender a common word?

surrender is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.