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Definition: SURRENDERING |
SURRENDERINGPersonal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Surrender |
Date "SURRENDERING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Submission | Adjective: surrendering; Verb: submissive, resigned, crouching; downtrodden; down on one's marrow bones; on one's bended knee; unresistant, unresisting, nonresisting; pliant; (soft); undefended. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SURRENDERING |
| English words defined with "SURRENDERING": capitulation, compliance ♦ fall, forfeit, forfeiture ♦ sacrifice, submission, surrender. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SURRENDERING": Surrender. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When I finally say I love you to any man and really mean it, it will be like a defeated general who's lost all his troops, surrendering and handing his sword to the enemy. (War and Peace; writing credit: Bridget Bol; Mario Camerini) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Japanese Navy Vice Admiral Chuichi Hara, Commander, 4th Fleet, signs the document, at ceremonies on board USS Portland (CA-33) surrendering the base at Truk, Caroline Islands, 2 September 1945. U.S. Navy officers present around the table are (left to right): Lieutenant S.E. Thompson, USNR, Flag Lieutenant; Captain O.F. Naquin, USN, Acting Chief of Staff; Vice Admiral George D. Murray, USN, Commander, Marianas, (seated), who accepted the surrender on behalf of the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas; Captain D.N. Cone, USN, representing Commander, Marshalls and Gilberts; Captain L.A. Thackrey, USN, Commanding Officer, USS Portland; Lieutenant L.L. Thompson, USN, Flag Secretary, and Lieutenant A.M. Soden, USNR, interpreter. Note Marine Corps photographer in right center background, and U.S. flag used as a backdrop. Credit: NAVY. |  | Japanese soldier surrendering to three U.S. soldiers in the Marshall Islands] / Cpl. J. Fabian. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Surrendering Japanese soldier emerges from cave on island of Saipan] / Defense Dept. photo (Marine Corps). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Confeds surrendering muskets and colors. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The Mexicans evacuating Vera Cruz, and surrendering their arms to the U.S. Army, under Genl. Scott / Lith. & pub. by Sarony & Major, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Remy De Gourmont | We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He closed his eyes, surrendering himself to her, body and mind, conscious of nothing in the world but the dark pressure of her softly parting lips. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Burma | In 1999 the senior abbots of five monasteries near Mandalay protested a new order by the regional military command that forbade Buddhist clergy to leave their township of residence without first surrendering their identity cards and obtaining written permission from local authorities. (references) |
Economic History | Ukraine | Often management and workers resist the prospects of surrendering government ownership to investors interested in an adequate return on capital. (references) |
Bulgaria | The judge possesses the authority to resort to the police in instances such as the vacating of property and, possibly, for the surrendering of possessions. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sri Lanka | According to credible reports, injured LTTE cadres surrendering to the Government received appropriate medical care. (references) |
Trade | Vietnam | The Foreign Exchange laws in Vietnam have undergone a number of changes in 2000 and 2001. The percentage of hard currency that local companies has to surrender to the State Bank of Vietnam has been reduced and the long-term act of 'balancing' done by Foreign Invested Enterprises has been eliminated in favor of a similar currency surrendering scheme. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "SURRENDERING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.81% of the time. "SURRENDERING" is used about 113 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 93.81% | 106 | 31,637 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.42% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 1.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 113 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
surrendering endowment | 6 |
surrendering | 3 |
pet surrendering | 2 |
document legal right surrendering | 2 |
jesus surrendering | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SURRENDERING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 投降 (Capitulate, Capitulated, Capitulating, Capitulation, surrender, surrendered). (various references) | ||||||||||
German | herausgebend (redacting), aufgebend (abandoning, capitulating, relinquishing, resigning, waiving), übergebend (consigning). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 玉摧 (dying but never surrendering). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぎょくさい (dying but never surrendering, honourable death, honourable defeat). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 자수 (surrender). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | urrenderingsay capitulard, capitulant. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cessionis, processio. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"SURRENDERING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: surrenduring. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SURRENDERING" (pronounced sere"ndering) |
| 6 | -e" n d er i ng | rendering, tendering. |
| 5 | -n d er i ng | blundering, floundering, foundering, gerrymandering, hindering, laundering, maundering, meandering, pandering, philandering, plundering, pondering, squandering, thundering, wandering, wondering. |
| 4 | -d er i ng | bewildering, bordering, considering, doddering, embroidering, murdering, ordering, powdering, reconsidering, reordering, shouldering, shuddering, smoldering, soldering. |
| 3 | -er i ng | administering, altering, anchoring, angering, answering, auguring, backfiring, badgering, bantering, bartering, battering, belaboring, beleaguering, bettering, bickering, blistering, blustering, bolstering, bothering, brokering, butchering, capturing, catering, censoring, centering, chartering, chattering, clamoring, clobbering, clustering, cluttering, coloring, configuring, conjuring, conquering, cornering, countering, covering, cowering, culturing, deciphering, delivering, desiring, devouring, diapering, dickering, differing, discovering, disfavoring, disfiguring, dismembering, dithering, doctoring, empowering, encountering, endangering, endeavoring, entering, factoring, faltering, fathering, favoring, feathering, featuring, festering, figuring, filibustering, filtering, fingering, flattering, flavoring, flickering, flowering, fluttering, fostering, fracturing, frittering, furthering, garnering, gathering, gesturing, glimmering, glittering, glowering, grandfathering, guttering, hammering, hampering, hankering, harboring, hectoring, hollering, honoring, hovering, hungering, hunkering, injuring, inquiring, laboring, lawyering, layering, lecturing, lettering, levering, lingering, littering, loitering, lowering, lumbering, majoring, maneuvering, manufacturing, massacring, mastering, measuring, mentoring, metering, minoring, mirroring, mitering, mongering, monitoring, mothering, motoring, murmuring, mustering, muttering, nattering, neighboring, neutering, nonmanufacturing, numbering, nurturing, offering, outnumbering, pampering, papering, partnering, peppering, perjuring, pestering, petering, picturing, pilfering, plastering, posturing, powering, pressuring, proffering, prospering, puncturing, puttering, quivering, recapturing, recovering, rediscovering, reentering, registering, rejiggering, remembering, reoffering, requiring, restructuring, rewiring, rupturing, savoring, scampering, scattering, scouring, sculpturing, sequestering, severing, shattering, sheltering, shimmering, shivering, showering, shuttering, simmering, slaughtering, slithering, slobbering, slumbering, smattering, smothering, snickering, sobering, soldiering, souring, spattering, spiering, splintering, sponsoring, sputtering, staggering, structuring, stuttering, suffering, swaggering, sweltering, tailoring, tampering, tapering, teetering, tempering, tinkering, torturing, tottering, towering, transpiring, triggering, tutoring, uncovering, unflattering, unwavering, ushering, uttering, venturing, wagering, wallpapering, warmongering, watering, wavering, weathering, whimpering, whispering, withering, Wuthering, zippering. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-g-i-n-n-r-r-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: derringers. | |
-3 letters: deringers, derringer, gunneries, reinsured, reinsurer, rendering, resending, sundering, surrender. | |
-4 letters: deringer, designer, enduring, energids, ensuring, grinders, grinners, ingenues, neurines, redesign, reedings, regrinds, reinsure, resigned, resigner, resurged, seigneur, sneering, sunderer, unerring, unrinsed, unseeing, unsigned, uredines. | |
-5 letters: dengues, deniers, dernier, derries, desirer, dingers, dinners, dreeing, dungier, durning, durries, endings, endrins, enduing, endures, energid, engined. | |
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