surrender
Yield to defeat
The verb surrender, without an object, describes agreeing to stop fighting or resisting.
With an object, to surrender something is to give it to someone who demands or asks for it (surrender your passport).
Give up is a synonym for both uses.
The noun surrender is an instance of surrendering, and is used to talk about a formal ending of hostilities: We’re studying Lee’s surrender at Appomattox.
Complete yielding to demands
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
- white flagSignal of capitulation
defeat · conquered · vanquished · unconditional · terms · treaty · occupation · prisoner
Lose through violation
- renounceFormally give up
- waiveVoluntarily give up entitlement
- abandonLeave behind permanently
- concedeAdmit something reluctantly
abdicate · hand over · turn over · give up · let go · release · transfer · conveyance
Deep, loyal commitment
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- trustConfidence in another
faith · ego death · humility · grace · transcendence · detachment · release · consecration
Openness to harm
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- releaseTo let go
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
- catharsisPurification through emotional expression
relief · breakdown · capitulation · exhaustion · yielding · openness · defenselessness · unburdening
Bending under pressure
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- subservienceExcessive willingness to obey
- deferenceYielding to another's judgment
acquiescence · docility · meekness · subjection · subordination · passivity · humility · servility
capitulation
Complete yielding to demands
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
white flag · defeat · conquered · vanquished · unconditional · terms · treaty · occupation · prisoner · disarmament
forfeit
Lose through violation
concede · abdicate · hand over · turn over · give up · let go · release · transfer · conveyance · consignment
devotion
Deep, loyal commitment
- sacrificeGiving up something precious
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
- acceptanceConsent to receive
trust · faith · ego death · humility · grace · transcendence · detachment · release · consecration · piety
vulnerability
Openness to harm
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- releaseTo let go
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
catharsis · relief · breakdown · capitulation · exhaustion · yielding · openness · defenselessness · unburdening · giving in
yielding
Bending under pressure
- complianceAdhering to requirements
- obedienceCompliance with authority
- subservienceExcessive willingness to obey
deference · acquiescence · docility · meekness · subjection · subordination · passivity · humility · servility · capitulating
- decisive actionsultimatum, veto, verdict, ruling, declaration
- defeatdefeat, beaten, conquered, vanquished, loss
- historic momentsturning points, heroic act, triumphs, sacrifice, victories
- responses to pressurepanic, calm, freeze, flight, fight
- Stress Responsespanic, freeze, fight, flight, cope
- surrendercapitulate, capitulating, capitulation, give up, giving up
surrenderresist
Oppose or refuse compliance
resistance · fight · defy · defiance · stand firm
- I surrenderAdmission of defeat
- never surrenderRefuse to yield ever
- terms of surrender
- no surrenderRefusal to yield
- unconditional surrenderYielding without any terms
- surrender termsConditions for ending hostilities
surrenderable, surrendered, surrenders, surrendering, surrenderer, surrenderers, unsurrendered