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Surrender

Surrender meaning

To give up into the power, control, or possession of another. | To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy. | To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.

Example sentences (20)

McCarthy said owners who want to surrender their pets are meant to file paperwork with the rescue ahead of the surrender, but too many simply dump their animals without any documentation.

Hirohito wanted to surrender but the IJA was against it and tried to arrest Hirohito before he could surrender Japan.

The government said its policy remained to surrender the certificates, but the surrender was delayed due to the National Energy Guarantee negotiations, and the government would reconsider the policy in 2020-21.

At the time, according to some authors, Josip Broz Tito repeatedly issued calls for surrender to the retreating column, offering amnesty and attempting to avoid a disorderly surrender.

Claudius's arch says he received the surrender of eleven kings without any loss, Arch of Claudius and Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars says that Claudius received the surrender of the Britons without battle or bloodshed.

Early surrender is much more favorable to the player than late surrender.

It stated that if Japan did not surrender, it would face "prompt and utter destruction." citation citation The Japanese government ignored this ultimatum, sending a message that they were not going to surrender.

It was agreed that British forces would take the surrender of Japanese forces in Saigon for the southern half of Indochina, whilst Japanese troops in the northern half would surrender to the Chinese.

It was during this retreat that some of the Guards were invited to surrender, eliciting the famous, if apocryphal, "'The Guard dies, but it does not surrender!' is another of these fictitious historical sayings.

Surrender at Yorktown (1781) main The siege of Yorktown ended with the surrender of a second British army, marking effective British defeat.

Surrender British soldiers marching rebel prisoners away after the surrender The headquarters garrison at the GPO, after days of shelling, was forced to abandon their headquarters when fire caused by the shells spread to the GPO.

Surrender to the Americans The Soviet Army was about convert from Peenemünde in the spring of 1945 when Von Braun assembled his planning staff and asked them to decide how and to whom they should surrender.

The alternative, "early" surrender, gives player the option to surrender before the dealer checks for blackjack, or in a no-hole-card game.

The story of the refusal of the guard to surrender is false as historically not only did the guard surrender, but Pierre Cambronne, the man portrayed as saying "merde", denied ever having said this.

The surrender speech also noted that "the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage" and ordered the Japanese to "endure the unendurable" in surrender.

When he received news of Lee's surrender, Forrest also chose to surrender.

Where Cromwell negotiated the surrender of fortified towns, as at Carlow, New Ross, and Clonmel, some historians argue that he respected the terms of surrender and protected the lives and property of the townspeople.

Abella was arrested after the Talisay City Police Station received a call from Abella’s relatives that he wanted to surrender to the authorities.

About 200 migrants who walked in the dark for about an hour to surrender to Border Patrol agents in Yuma, Arizona, included many Cubans — who were stunned to hear that a ban on asylum that previously fell.

Academics may debate whether the U.S. could have achieved Japan’s “unconditional surrender” without the bomb.