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Definition: Surrendered |
SurrenderedAdjective1. 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: SurrenderedSynonym: relinquished (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Surrendered |
| English words defined with "surrendered": Bataan ♦ Cessionary, confiscate, Corregidor ♦ forfeit, forfeited, forfeiture ♦ Hirohito ♦ Kohnur ♦ mandate, mandatory, Michinomiya Hirohito ♦ sacrifice, siege of Vicksburg ♦ Vicksburg ♦ Yorktown. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "surrendered": Altamorus ♦ BOOTH ♦ DEPOSIT-REFUND CLERK ♦ Friday and the United States ♦ Koh-i-Nur ♦ Man of Sedan, Melita ♦ Spanish Brutus. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "surrendered": Surrender. (references) |
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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) | |
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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. | ||
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The trust honestly surrendered, the probity of the avowal, that was good. |
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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) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | This indispensable power thus surrendered by the States must be within the scope of the authority on the subject expressly delegated to Congress. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | If 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 | 1945-1953 | Long before our enemies surrendered, the foundations had been laid on which to continue this unity in the peace to come. |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 50.88% | 202 | 21,454 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 37.03% | 147 | 25,998 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.59% | 46 | 50,285 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.5% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 397 | 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 |
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. | |
| 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 | ||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "surrendered" (pronounced sere"nderd) |
| 5 | -e" n d er d | engendered, rendered, tendered. |
| 4 | -n d er d | blundered, floundered, foundered, gerrymandered, hindered, laundered, meandered, nonstandard, pandered, plundered, pondered, slandered, squandered, standard, substandard, thundered, unhindered, wandered, wondered. |
| 3 | -d er d | bewildered, bordered, considered, disordered, embroidered, murdered, ordered, powdered, reconsidered, shouldered, shuddered. |
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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. | |
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