surrender
Example Sentences
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A Met Police spokesperson said: "On Wednesday, 19 November, Metropolitan Police firearms licensing officers attended an address in Windsor to request that a man in his 60s voluntarily surrender his firearms and shotgun certificate."
From BBC
Coolidge saw in “the marvelous history of the Jewish people” a special lesson in their “capacity for adaptation in detail, without surrender of essentials.”
It is remarkable that the U.S. fought another war only five years after the Japanese surrender at Tokyo Bay.
Those who choose to surrender face a return fraught with suspicion and shame.
This is the natural pattern of regulatory surrender.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.