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# surrendered

verb (past form of surrender: surrender, surrenders, surrendered, surrendering); adjective (a surrendered pet)

«surrendered» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. gave up in a fight or war and stopped fighting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#m1)
2. handed something over, often because you must ("surrendered his passport"). [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#m2)
3. (euphemism, official) of a pet: given up by its owner to an animal shelter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#m3)

### In the lessons

Military and everyday sense for giving up; in animal shelters, a gentle official word for a pet the owner could not keep. All regions.

### Examples

- The army surrendered at dawn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x1)
- The dog was surrendered to the shelter when its owner moved. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x2)
- He surrendered his phone to the teacher. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x3)
- Many rabbits are surrendered after the holidays. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x4)
- The robber surrendered to the police. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x5)
- The shelter takes in surrendered cats. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x6)
- Then the bird surrendered at once, and begged to be taken into Momotaro’s company. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/#x7)

### Note

Several senses. A surrendered pet is not lost or stray; its owner gave it up. In maths, surrendered animals may be added to a shelter's total.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «surrendered» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/surrendered/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«surrendered» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/surrendered.html) on Mova free.