Vindicate vs Surrender - What's the difference?
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To clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
To justify by providing evidence.
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To maintain or defend a cause against opposition.
To provide justification for.
To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
(obsolete) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
(obsolete) To avenge; to punish
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.
To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
(reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
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.
As verbs the difference between vindicate and surrender
is that vindicate is to clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism 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.As a noun surrender is
an act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.vindicate
English
Verb
- to vindicate someone's honor
- to vindicate a right, claim or title
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- to vindicate the rights of labor movement in developing countries
- The violent history of the suspect vindicated the use of force by the police.
- A war to vindicate infidelity.
surrender
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Alternative forms
* surrendre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- I surrender !
- to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage
- ''to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep