Relinquish vs. Surrender

(transitive) To give up, abandon or retire from something. To trade away.

Example: ‘to relinquish a title’; ‘to relinquish property’; ‘to relinquish rights’; ‘to relinquish citizenship or nationality’;

(transitive) To let go (free, away), physically release.

(transitive) To metaphorically surrender, yield control or possession.

(transitive) To accept to give up, withdraw etc.

Example: ‘The delegations saved the negotiations by relinquishing their incompatible claims to sole jurisdiction’;

To withdraw from; to leave behind; to desist from; to abandon; to quit; as, to relinquish a pursuit.

Example: ‘We ought to relinquish such rites.’; ‘They placed Irish tenants upon the lands relinquished by the English.’;

To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.

part with a possession or right;

Example: ‘I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest’; ‘resign a claim to the throne’;

relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another

do without or cease to hold or adhere to;

Example: ‘We are dispensing with formalities’; ‘relinquish the old ideas’;

turn away from; give up;

Example: ‘I am foreswearing women forever’;

release, as from one's grip;

Example: ‘Let go of the door handle, please!’; ‘relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall’;

(transitive) To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.

To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.

To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.

Example: ‘I surrender!’;

(transitive) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.

Example: ‘to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage’;

(reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.

Example: ‘to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep’;

To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.

For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.

An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.

The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.

The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.

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.

To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage.

Example: ‘To surrender up that right which otherwise their founders might have in them.’;

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.

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.

To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.

The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.

Example: ‘That he may secure some liberty he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it.’;

The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.

The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).

acceptance of despair

a verbal act of admitting defeat

the delivery of a principal into lawful custody

the act of surrendering (under agreed conditions);

Example: ‘they were protected until the capitulation of the fort’;

give up or agree to forego to the power or possession of another;

Example: ‘The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered’;

relinquish possession or control over;

Example: ‘The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in’;

relinquish to the power of another; yield to the control of another