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Surrender vs Surrenderer - What's the difference?

surrender | surrenderer |

As nouns the difference between surrender and surrenderer

is that surrender is an act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation while surrenderer is one who surrenders.

As a verb 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.

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

    surrenderer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • one who surrenders
  • *{{quote-book, year=1867, author=John Lothrop Motley, title=Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I will warrant him hanged and one or two of his fellows, but you must not tell your shirt of this yet;" and when he was congratulating the government on his having at length procured the execution of Captain Hemart, the surrenderer of Grave, he added, pithily, "and you shall hear that Mr. P. B. shall follow." }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2004, date=March 19, author=Justin Hayford, title=Good Things in Small Spaces, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=A massive desk lamp shields him almost entirely from the client, who's left to contemplate a framed photograph of the professional surrenderer planting his flag atop a hill. }} English agent nouns