surrendered

«surrendered» in Mova's school dictionary: gave up in a fight or war and stopped fighting — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

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

meaning for a pupil

1) gave up in a fight or war and stopped fighting. tree →

2) handed something over, often because you must ("surrendered his passport"). tree →

3) (euphemism, official) of a pet: given up by its owner to an animal shelter. tree →

sense 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 →
• The dog was surrendered to the shelter when its owner moved. tree →
• He surrendered his phone to the teacher. tree →
• Many rabbits are surrendered after the holidays. tree →
• The robber surrendered to the police. tree →
• The shelter takes in surrendered cats. tree →
• Then the bird surrendered at once, and begged to be taken into Momotaro’s company. tree →

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.

In the corpora

• "Surrendered" means a pet was given up to an animal shelter.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «surrendered» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.