surrendre

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A form of surrender — To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.

OriginOld French surrendre ← Latin reddō →
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Meanings

verbsurrendre (third-person singular simple present surrendres, present participle surrendring, simple past and past participle surrendred)

present singular third person surrendres · participle present surrendring · participle past surrendred · past surrendred

  1. archaicArchaic form of surrender.

Origin

  1. Latinreddō“to give back”
  2. Old Frenchsurrendre
  3. Englishsurrendre

From Old French surrendre, from sur- + rendre (“give back”), from Latin reddō (“to give back”), from re- + dō (“to give”).

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Chicago

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