Definition of Surrender

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Surrender

The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).

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.

To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.

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.

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.

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.

The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.

The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.

The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.

The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.

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Surrender Quotations

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
Maya Angelou

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill

The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Vince Lombardi

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
Mohandas Gandhi

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
Mohandas Gandhi

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy

No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
Confucius

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Robert H. Schuller

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal

Surrender Translations

surrender in Dutch is capituleren, zich overgeven
surrender in German is Abtretung {f}, Kapitulation, aufgeben
surrender in Italian is consegnare
surrender in Swedish is ge sig, uppge

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