surrender
/sərˈendər/ verbDefinition
STOP FIGHTING [I] › to stop fighting and admit that you have been beaten: Rebel troops are refusing to surrender.
GIVE [T] formal › to give something to someone else because you have been forced or officially asked to give it to them: He was released on the condition that he surrendered his passport.
surrender noun [C, U] (Definition of surrender verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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