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Surrender vs Requite - What's the difference?

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Surrender is a related term of requite.


As verbs the difference between surrender and requite

is that 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 while requite is to return in kind; to repay; to recompense; to reward.

As a noun surrender

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

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

    requite

    English

    Alternative forms

    *(archaic) requit

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To return in kind; To repay; to recompense; to reward.
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
  • *:But, remember—
  • *:For that's my business to you,—that you three
  • *:From Milan did supplant good Prospero;
  • *:Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,
  • *:Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed
  • *:The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have
  • *:Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,
  • *:Against your peace.
  • * 1925 , Franz Kafka, The Trial'', ''Vintage Books (London) , pg. 91:
  • He bowed slightly to K.'s uncle, who appeared very flattered to make this new acquaintance, yet, being by nature incapable of expressing obligation, requited the Clerk of the Court's words with a burst of embarrassed but raucous laughter.
  • To retaliate.
  • Derived terms

    * unrequited

    Anagrams

    * quieter

    References

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