Usually means: Ceasing resistance to an opponent.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. surrender: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surrender: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surrender: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surrender: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surrender: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surrender, surrender: Wordnik
  7. surrender: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. surrender: Wiktionary
  9. surrender: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. surrender: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surrender: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surrender: Dictionary.com
  13. surrender: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. surrender: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Surrender: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. surrender: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. surrender: Rhymezone
  19. surrender: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. surrender: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. surrender: Free Dictionary
  22. surrender: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. surrender: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. surrender: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. surrender: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. surrender: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. surrender: Finance-Glossary.com
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Surrender (Song), Surrender (album), Surrender (military), Surrender (single): Legal dictionary
  7. Surrender (Song), Surrender (album), Surrender (single), surrender: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  9. surrender: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Surrender (Song), Surrender (album), Surrender (single), surrender: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SURRENDER, SURRENDER, SURRENDER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. surrender: Idioms

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (transitive) To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
verb:  (military, by extension, transitive) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
verb:  (intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
verb:  (transitive) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
verb:  (reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
verb:  (transitive, insurance) For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.
noun:  An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
noun:  The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
noun:  (law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.

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