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Surrendered

Definition: Surrendered

Surrendered

Adjective

1. Given up often unwillingly; "a relinquishment is a piece of relinquished or abandoned land".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "surrendered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)


Synonym: Surrendered

Synonym: relinquished (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Surrendered

English words defined with "surrendered": BataanCessionary, confiscate, Corregidorforfeit, forfeited, forfeitureHirohitoKohnurmandate, mandatory, Michinomiya Hirohitosacrifice, siege of VicksburgVicksburgYorktown. (references)
Specialty definitions using "surrendered": AltamorusBOOTHDEPOSIT-REFUND CLERKFriday and the United StatesKoh-i-NurMan of Sedan, MelitaSpanish Brutus. (references)
Etymologies containing "surrendered": Surrender. (references)

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Modern Usage: Surrendered

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You surrendered at Appomattox! (Wild Wild West; writing credit: Jim Thomas; John Thomas)

The others surrendered! (The Others; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar)

Lyrics

And surrendered my weapon to cops (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

Clever

If our gifts are not surrendered to God, we tend to beat people over the head with them. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Surrendered

DomainTitle

Books

  • Grace Unfolding: The Art of Living a Surrendered Life (reference)

  • Surrendered Love, Redeeming Grace. (reference)

  • To Grace Surrendered (reference)

  • Under the Circumstances: A Woman's Guide to a Surrendered Heart (reference)

  • Virtuous Reality: How America Surrendered Discussion of Moral Values to Opportunists, Nitwits, and Blockheads Like William Bennett (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Surrendered

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Drawing made circa 1865. The incomplete Nashville was surrendered to Union forces on 10 May 1865. The original drawing is in color. Written in pencil in its lower left is "Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, with respectful regards, His Obdt. Servant, Thornton A. Jenkins, Commodore, U.S. Navy.". Credit: NAVY.

Contemporary sketch of the ship. The incomplete Nashville was surrendered to Union forces on 10 May 1865. Credit: NAVY.

Lieutenant Commander Edward Porter Clayton, USN, (center, back to camera) Commanding Officer of Underwater Demolition Team 21, receiving the first sword surrendered to an American force in the Japanese Home islands. The surrender was made by a Japanese Army Coast Artillery Major (standing opposite LCdr. Clayton) at Futtsu-misaki, across Tokyo Bay from Yokosuka Navy Base on 28 August 1945. Members of UDT-21 had landed from USS Burke (APD-65), whose boats are beached in this view. Identifications of many of the UDT-21 members present are provided in NH 71599 (complete caption). Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", 1862, depicting the ship blowing up off Fort St. Philip, Louisiana, on 18 April 1862, after the Confederates surrendered the lower Mississippi River fortifications. Credit: NAVY.

Surrendered colors--U.S. soldiers pose with a surrendered Italian flag for a Coast Guard photographer at a villa a few miles from the beach at Paestum, Italy--An Italian soldier is shown at the extreme right. Credit: Library of Congress.

View of the Bennett House, four miles west of Durham, N.C. The house in which Gen. Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to Gen. W.T. Sherman, April 26, 1865 / R.B. Credit: Library of Congress.

Surrendered. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Historic Usage: Surrendered

AuthorDateQuotation

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Vessels which are now interned in neutral ports will be there surrendered to the Governments of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Surrendered

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The trust honestly surrendered, the probity of the avowal, that was good.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Surrendered

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

They surrendered to fellow soldiers after a 14-hour standoff. (references)

Also, most cars are parked at their work units overnight and most cities have surrendered their sidewalks to parked cars. (references)

Economic History

North Korea

Japan surrendered in August 1945, and Korea was liberated. (references)

Cambodia

Phnom Penh surrendered on April 17--5 days after the US mission evacuated Cambodia. (references)

Ecuador

A trademark registration cannot be voluntarily surrendered without the consent of the licensee. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

The kidnaper surrendered to police before the child's parents paid the ransom. (references)

India

Surrendered militants usually are given a resettlement and retraining allowance and other assistance. (references)

Croatia

Ademi voluntarily surrendered to the ICTY in July; however, Gotovina remained a fugitive at year's end. (references)

Political Economy

Solomon Islands

International Peace Monitoring Team members place the surrendered weapons in the containers and hold the keys. (references)

GHANA

However, the BOG dominates the Interbank Market by controlling the supply of large amount of surrendered proceeds from gold and cocoa. (references)

Solomon Islands

All weapons were supposed to be surrendered, and shipping containers were placed at strategic locations throughout the country for depositing them. (references)

Trade

Azerbaijan

Temporary entry forms covering laptops must be surrendered on departure. (references)

Turkey

One copy of the document must be surrendered to the customs authorities at the time of importation. (references)

India

Cash Against Document (CAD): In this case the goods are shipped and the relevant documents are forwarded to the buyer through a bank in India and surrendered to the buyer by a bank in his country on payment to the exporter. (references)

Women

Jordan

Her brother surrendered himself to police after initially fleeing the scene of the killing. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Surrendered

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837This indispensable power thus surrendered by the States must be within the scope of the authority on the subject expressly delegated to Congress.

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865If the slave is to be surrendered, it can be of but little consequence to him or to others by which authority it is done.

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Long before our enemies surrendered, the foundations had been laid on which to continue this unity in the peace to come.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Surrendered

"Surrendered" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 50.88% of the time. "Surrendered" is used about 397 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)50.88%20221,454
Lexical Verb (past participle)37.03%14725,998
Adjective (general or positive)11.59%4650,285
Noun (proper)0.5%2245,945
                    Total100.00%397N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Surrendered

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

the surrendered wife

21

single surrendered

9

captured former iraq leaders surrendered

3

surrendered

3

soul surrendered

2

carls french jr surrendered

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Surrendered

Language Translations for "surrendered"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

投降 (Capitulate, Capitulated, Capitulating, Capitulation, surrender, Surrendering). (various references)

   

French

  

terre cédée (surrendered land). (various references)

   

German

  

herausgegebene, übergab (consigned, relegated). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

자수하". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

urrenderedsay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Surrendered"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "surrendered" (pronounced sere"nderd)
5-e" n d er dengendered, rendered, tendered.
4-n d er dblundered, floundered, foundered, gerrymandered, hindered, laundered, meandered, nonstandard, pandered, plundered, pondered, slandered, squandered, standard, substandard, thundered, unhindered, wandered, wondered.
3-d er dbewildered, bordered, considered, disordered, embroidered, murdered, ordered, powdered, reconsidered, shouldered, shuddered.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Surrendered

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-e-e-e-n-r-r-r-s-u"

-2 letters: renderers, surrender.

-3 letters: denuders, durneder, rendered, renderer, sundered, sunderer, unseeded.

-4 letters: denuder, denudes, dudeens, duendes, endured, endures, ensured, ensurer, needers, reddens, redders, renders, rudders, serener, sneered, sneerer.

-5 letters: denser, denude, dudeen, duende, durned, enders, endued, endues, endure, ensued, ensure, enured, enures, needed, needer, nursed, nurser, redden, redder, reeded, rended, render, reruns, reseed, reseen, resend.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-e-e-e-n-r-r-r-s-u"
 

+5 letters: underrepresented.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Historic
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Rhymes
15. Anagrams
16. Bibliography


  

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