surrenders
Waves white flag
Surrenders is the act of yielding to another's power or control.
An army surrenders when it stops fighting and submits to the enemy.
A person surrenders a weapon by handing it over: He surrendered his passport at the border.
Beyond physical yielding, one can surrender to an emotion or temptation: She surrendered to despair.
To surrender oneself is to turn oneself in to authorities.
Submit without protest
- complyFollow rules or requests
- consentVoluntary agreement given
- deferDelay or submit
- accedeConsent or comply
submit · bow · relent · succumb · give in · cave · bend · yield
Yield under pressure
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- white flagSignal of capitulation
- ceasefireAgreed halt to fighting
concession · relinquishment · cession · treaty · terms · unconditional · prisoner · occupation
Admit something reluctantly
- relinquishVoluntarily give up control
- cedeFormally surrender possession
- give upStop attempting something
- hand overTransfer to another's control
forfeit · waive · abandon · renounce · release · transfer · turn over · deliver
To let go
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- trustConfidence in another
openness · unburdening · catharsis · relief · embrace · allowing · softening · melting
acquiesce
Submit without protest
accede · submit · bow · relent · succumb · give in · cave · bend · yield · kowtow
capitulate
Yield under pressure
- armisticeAgreement to cease hostilities
- truceAgreed halt to hostilities
- white flagSignal of capitulation
ceasefire · concession · relinquishment · cession · treaty · terms · unconditional · prisoner · occupation · defeat
concede
Admit something reluctantly
- relinquishVoluntarily give up control
- cedeFormally surrender possession
- give upStop attempting something
hand over · forfeit · waive · abandon · renounce · release · transfer · turn over · deliver · part with
release
To let go
- letting goReleasing one's grasp
- acceptanceConsent to receive
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
trust · openness · unburdening · catharsis · relief · embrace · allowing · softening · melting · opening up
- historic momentsturning points, heroic act, triumphs, sacrifice, victories
- surrendercapitulate, capitulating, capitulation, give up, giving up
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, war, armed conflict
- Caesar's GaulJulius Caesar, Gaul, Gallic Wars, legions, Roman legions
- Indigenous Treatieshistoric treaties, historical treaties, tribal treaties, Treaty of Greenville, Treaty of Waitangi
surrendersresists
Actively withstands force
fights · holds out · perseveres · defies · fights back
- 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
surrender, surrendered, surrendering, surrenderer, surrenderers, unsurrendered