Usually means: Ceases resistance, yields to control.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word surrenders:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. surrenders: Merriam-Webster
  2. surrenders: Collins English Dictionary
  3. surrenders: Vocabulary.com
  4. Surrenders, surrenders: Wordnik
  5. surrenders: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. surrenders: Wiktionary
  7. surrenders: Dictionary.com
  8. surrenders: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. surrenders: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. surrenders: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. surrenders: Legal dictionary
  3. surrenders: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surrenders: Encyclopedia

(Note: See surrender as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (surrender)

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:  (ambitransitive, 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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