Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SUR-REN'DER, v.t. [Fr. se rendre, to yield. Surrender is probably a corruption of se rendre.]

1. To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy, or to commissioners of bankrupt; to surrender a fort or a ship. [To surrender up is not elegant.]
2. To yield; to give up; to resign in favor of another; to surrender a right or privilege; to surrender a place or an office.
3. To give up; to resign; as, to surrender the breath.
4. In law, to yield an estate, as a tenant, into the hands of the lord for such purposes as are expressed in the act. – Blackstone.
5. To yield to any influence, passion or power; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence or to sleep.