surrendering

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of surrender.

   By noon the garrison was surrendering its weapons to the advancing army.

   Surrendering control of the company, he handed the keys to his successor.

   Note

   The -ing form carries every construction the verb has. It can take an object (surrendering the keys), turn back on its subject (surrendering herself to grief), or stand alone (the troops were surrendering). At the card table it means giving up a hand to recover half the bet. As a gerund it still takes a direct object (surrendering control was hard), unlike the noun for the act, which needs of.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   An act of giving oneself, one's forces, or something held up to the control of another, especially an enemy or authority.

   The surrendering of the fortress marked the end of the long siege.

   Historians still debate whether the surrendering of the colony was inevitable.

   Similarcapitulation, handover, yielding, fall

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