Downfall vs Surrender - What's the difference?

Downfall is a related term of surrender.

In lang=en terms the difference between downfall and surrender

is that downfall is to fall down; deteriorate; decline while surrender is to give up possession of; to yield; to resign.

As nouns the difference between downfall and surrender

is that downfall is a precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth while surrender is an act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.

As verbs the difference between downfall and surrender

is that downfall is to fall down; deteriorate; decline while surrender is to give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically (military) to yield (a town, a fortification, etc) to an enemy.

downfall

English

Noun

(en noun)

A precipitous decline in fortune; death or rapid deterioration, as in status or wealth.

Many economic and political reasons led to the downfall of the Roman Empire.

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The cause of such a fall; a critical blow or error.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

An act of falling down.

* (Thomas Hardy), A Laodicean

Synonyms

* (precipitous decline in fortune) fall * (death or rapid deterioration) doom

Derived terms

Verb

To fall down; deteriorate; decline.

* 1977 , Mina P. Shaughnessy, Errors and expectations: a guide for the teacher of basic writing :

[...] wants to make civilization his subject, he will have a hard time proceeding with the sentence unless collapse is in his active vocabulary, for he cannot say "our civilization will downfall " or "fall down."

* 1998 , Peter Vink, Ernst A. P. Koningsveld, Steven Dhondt, Human factors in organizational design and management-VI :

Common belief has been that in the future the number of middle managers will downfall due to empowerment and team-building.

* 1998 , Lithuanian physics journal:

It should be noted that the magnitude of satellites decreases when tuning out of degeneracy, and in the wavelength range of 1.2-1.3 pm it downfalls to the value of 10-15% of the main spike magnitude.

* 2008 , Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra :

[...] As goodly air as ever From lunar orb downfell — Be it by hazard, Or supervened it by arrogancy?

Derived terms

* down-fallen, downfallen

Anagrams

surrender

English

Alternative forms

* surrendre (archaic)

Verb

(en verb)

To give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically (military) to yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.

(intransitive, or, reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.

I surrender !

To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.

to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage

(reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.

''to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep

To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.

Synonyms

* (l), (l) * wave the white flag

Noun

(en noun)

An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.

The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.

(legal, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.

Synonyms

* capitulation