different between surrender vs amain

English

Alternative forms

• surrendre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French surrendre, from sur- + rendre (“render”). Noun use is from Anglo-Norman.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s????nd??/
• Rhymes: -?nd?(?)

Verb

surrender (third-person singular simple present surrenders, present participle surrendering, simple past and past participle surrendered)

1. (transitive) To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
2. (military, by extension, transitive) To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
3. (intransitive or reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.

   I surrender!

4. (transitive) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.

   to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage

5. (reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.

   to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep

6. (transitive, intransitive, blackjack) To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
7. (transitive, insurance) For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.

Synonyms

• ((transitive) give up into the power, control, or possession of another): hand over, overgive
• ((intransitive) give oneself up into the power of another): strike one's flag, wave the white flag

Translations

Noun

surrender (countable and uncountable, plural surrenders)

1. An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
2. The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
3. (law, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.

Synonyms

• capitulation

Translations

Anagrams

• surrendre

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??me?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Etymology 1

From a- (prefix with the sense ‘at; in; on; with’, used to show a state, condition, or manner) +? main (“force, power, strength”). Main is derived from Middle English mayn (“strength”), from Old English mæ?en (“strength”), from Proto-Germanic *magin? (“might, power, strength”), *maginaz (“strong”), from Proto-Indo-European *meg?- (“to be able”).

Adverb

amain (comparative more amain, superlative most amain)

1. (archaic, literary) With all of one's might; mightily; forcefully, violently. [from 16th c.]
2. (archaic) At full speed; also, in great haste. [from 16th c.]
3. (Britain, dialectal) Out of control.
4. (obsolete) Exceedingly; overmuch.

Alternative forms

• amaine (obsolete)

Related terms

• main
• mainly (“(obsolete) forcefully, vigorously”)
• might and main

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish amainar (“to reef a sail (take in part of a sail to adapt its size to the force of the wind); to abate, die down, subside; to ease off, let up; of a person: to calm down, control one’s anger”); further etymology uncertain, probably from a regional Italian (Naples) word (compare Italian ammainare (“to lower or reef (a flag, sail, etc.)”)), from Vulgar Latin *invag?nare (“to sheathe (a sword); to put away, stow”), from Latin in- (prefix meaning ‘in, inside, within’) + v?g?na (“scabbard, sheath; covering, holder; vagina”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wag- (“cover; sheath”)).

Verb

amain (third-person singular simple present amains, present participle amaining, simple past and past participle amained) (obsolete)

1. (transitive)
   1. (nautical) To lower (the sail of a ship, particularly the topsail).
   2. (figuratively) To decrease or reduce (something).
2. (intransitive, nautical) To lower the topsail in token of surrender; to yield.

References

Further reading

• “AMAIN, adv.” in Joseph Wright, editor, The English Dialect Dictionary: […], volume I (A–C), London: Published by Henry Frowde, […], publisher to the English Dialect Society, […]; New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1898, ?OCLC, page 47, column 2.

Anagrams

• -mania, Amina, Maina, Mania, amnia, anima, mania

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse almanna (“for everyone”).

Adjective

amain m

1. (Jersey) of easy use

Tagalog

Noun

amaín

1. uncle

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English amen, from Latin ?m?n.

Interjection

amain

1. amen

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN