Synonyms of surrendering

surrendering 1 of 3

adjective

as in yielding

Related Words

• yielding
• subordinate
• acquiescent
• obliging
• dutiful
• agreeable
• subservient
• amiable
• servile
• obedient
• submissive
• slavish
• fawning
• docile
• obsequious
• kowtowing
• soft
• compliant
• amenable
• conformable
• duteous
• restrained
• placable
• obeisant
• tractable
• orderly
• inhibited
• disciplined
• biddable
• constrained
• repressed
• decorous
• controllable
• law-abiding
• mannerly
• manageable
• tame
• meek
• teachable
• gentle
• curbed
• mild
• trainable
• governable
• disciplinable
• handleable

Dissimilar Words

• contrary
• defiant
• wayward
• willful
• rebellious
• refractory
• recalcitrant
• rebel
• disobedient
• unruly
• noncompliant
• insurgent
• stubborn
• restive
• insubordinate
• obstinate
• ungovernable
• intractable
• mutinous
• balky
• wild
• uncontrollable
• contumacious
• unyielding
• obstreperous
• untoward
• resistant
• obdurate
• dogged
• defiant
• unmanageable
• unamenable
• peevish
• mulish
• bad
• hardheaded
• headstrong
• perverse
• errant
• incompliant
• disorderly
• froward
• balky
• naughty
• mischievous
• pigheaded
• undisciplined
• self-willed
• dissident
• disrespectful
• insolent
• impudent
• nonconformist
• misbehaving
• rude
• impolite
• ill-bred
• ill-mannered

surrendering

2 of 3

noun

as in relinquishment

Related Words

• relinquishment
• dispossession
• transferal
• nonpossession

Dissimilar Words

• control
• possession
• hands
• enjoyment
• ownership
• power
• keeping
• authority
• command
• proprietorship
• mastery
• dominion

surrendering

3 of 3

verb

present participle of surrender

1

as in relinquishing

to give (something) over to the control or possession of another usually under duress

the toddler surrendered the doll to her mother after a brief struggle

the commander surrendered the garrison without having fired a single shot

Synonyms & Similar Words

• relinquishing
• rendering
• delivering
• ceding
• yielding
• abandoning
• transferring
• resigning
• turning in
• committing
• laying down
• giving up
• turning over
• entrusting
• handing over
• waiving
• forfeiting
• releasing
• coughing up
• renouncing
• discarding
• consigning
• deserting
• shedding
• forsaking
• parting (with)
• abnegating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• keeping
• retaining
• withholding

2

as in succumbing

to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)

the father refused to surrender to his son's constant begging for a BB gun

Synonyms & Similar Words

• succumbing
• submitting
• conceding
• bowing
• capitulating
• yielding
• relenting
• budging
• quitting
• giving in
• acquiescing
• blinking
• knuckling under
• deferring
• throwing in the towel
• saying uncle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• resisting
• fighting
• contending
• opposing
• confronting
• facing
• meeting
• objecting
• combating
• battling
• countering
• defying
• repelling
• withstanding
• thwarting
• holding off
• breasting

3

as in resigning

to give up (as a position of authority) formally

the aging queen refused to surrender the throne to her increasingly impatient heir

Synonyms & Similar Words

• relinquishing
• resigning
• abdicating
• renouncing
• ceding
• denying
• stepping down (from)
• waiving
• abnegating
• vacating
• abandoning
• disavowing
• stepping aside (from)
• disclaiming
• abjuring
• forsaking
• disowning
• yielding
• deserting
• demitting
• giving up
• handing over
• quitting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• claiming
• assuming
• appropriating
• seizing
• protecting
• confiscating
• securing
• defending
• arrogating
• taking over
• usurping
• guarding
• safeguarding
• wresting

4

as in submitting

to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)

determined to give up smoking, she so far has not surrendered to her incessant desire to have a cigarette

Synonyms & Similar Words

• succumbing
• submitting
• yielding
• bowing
• giving in
• caving (in)
• indulging
• gratifying
• catering (to)
• wallowing
• conceding (to)
• acquiescing (to)
• buckling (under)
• giving over (to)
• knuckling under

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• resisting
• fighting
• opposing
• confronting
• facing
• meeting
• objecting
• combating
• battling
• countering
• defying
• repelling
• rejecting
• withstanding
• thwarting
• holding off
• restraining
• checking
• inhibiting
• breasting
• curbing
• constraining
• stifling
• bridling

5

as in falling

to yield to the control or power of enemy forces

General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865, thus ending the Civil War

Synonyms & Similar Words

• succumbing
• submitting
• falling
• capitulating
• collapsing
• relinquishing
• bowing
• giving up
• giving (in)
• conceding
• knuckling under
• buckling
• losing
• caving (in)
• failing
• folding
• handing over

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• standing
• fighting
• enduring
• resisting
• opposing
• winning
• withstanding
• overcoming
• beating
• defying
• prevailing
• repelling
• conquering
• bucking
• triumphing

6

as in indulging

to give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedly

laid-off workers who surrender themselves to despair will almost certainly never regain their footing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• indulging
• abandoning
• yielding
• delivering
• reveling
• giving up
• overdoing
• basking
• overindulging
• rolling
• wallowing
• luxuriating

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• denying
• eschewing
• restraining
• refraining (from)
• abstaining (from)
• checking
• forgoing
• inhibiting
• forbearing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of surrendering

Adjective

The Mule lands on the planet, and Indbur the weasel immediately kneels before the pirate, completely surrendering. — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025

Noun

He was eventually talked into surrendering. — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026

Anderson has spent her career making albums, visual art, and films that deal with the surrendering of humanity to technology, loss, and even Amelia Earhart. — David Harris, SPIN, 11 May 2026

When officers arrived, Martinez holed up inside the home and held police at bay until he was coaxed into surrendering. — Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026

But there’s also the surrendering. — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026

May Lau has done untold damage to children, both physically and psychologically, and the surrendering of her Texas medical license is a major victory for our state. — Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025

Verb

Overall, Lomon pitched 16 2/3 innings, surrendering 24 hits and eight walks while recording seven strikeouts in his career. — Peter Chawaga, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Leaving is sometimes necessary, but far more often the harder and healthier work is learning how to stay connected to imperfect people without surrendering ourselves, or trying to control them. — David H. Rosmarin, Time, 29 Aug. 2026

There has long been a feeling in Osterley that Love bosses struggled to come to terms with surrendering their ownership to Sky in 2020. — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2026

The process does not require an adult to provide any identifying information when surrendering a newborn, and does not require the adult to interact with first responders. — Irene Wright, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2026

The opposition leader Rahul Gandhi accused Modi of surrendering to American pressure. — C. Raja Mohan, Foreign Affairs, 27 Aug. 2026

Luis Castillo had an even shorter appearance on Saturday, surrendering four runs over 2 2/3 innings in a 10-5 loss to the Mets. — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

People are doing backyard breeding, unethical breeding, abandoning their pets, surrendering their pets at alarming rates and they're getting euthanized at alarming rates all across our nation, in shelters just because of space. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Aug. 2026

From the beginning of time, the way to resist the irresistible is by resisting, not surrendering. — Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2026