Sur·ren·der v. t. [imp. & p. p. Surrendered p. pr. & vb. n. Surrendering.]
 1. To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.
 2. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.
    To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have in them.   --Hooker.
 3. To yield to any influence, emotion, passion, or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep.
 4. Law To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.


 surrendered
      adj : given up often unwillingly; "a relinquishment is a piece of
            relinquished or abandoned land" [syn: relinquished]