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surrender

Surrender is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter S and ends with the letter R for which we found 5 definitions.

Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as to surrender a right privilege or advantage.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as the enemy seeing no way of escape surrendered at the first summons.

Syllable Information

The word surrender is a 9 letter word that has 3 syllable 's . The syllable division for surrender is: sur-ren-der


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