different between surrender vs requite

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

Alternative forms

• (archaic) requit

Etymology

From Middle English requiten (“to repay”), from Old French requiter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kwa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

requite (third-person singular simple present requites, present participle requiting, simple past and past participle requited)

1. (transitive) To return (usually something figurative) that has been given; to repay; to recompense
   • 1610, Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 3 scene 3

     But, remember—

     For that's my business to you,—that you three

     From Milan did supplant good Prospero;

     Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit it,

     Him, and his innocent child: for which foul deed

     The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have

     Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the creatures,

     Against your peace.

   • 1841, Edgar Allan Poe, A Few Words on Secret Writing

     Good cryptographists are rare indeed; and thus their services, although seldom required, are necessarily well requited.

   • 1937, Willa Muir, Edwin Muir (translators), Franz Kafka, The Trial, Vintage Books (London), published 1983, pg. 91, original published 1925

     He bowed slightly to K.'s uncle, who appeared very flattered to make this new acquaintance, yet, being by nature incapable of expressing obligation, requited the Clerk of the Court's words with a burst of embarrassed but raucous laughter.
2. (intransitive) To retaliate.

Derived terms

• unrequited

Translations

Noun

requite

1. requital

References

• requite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• requite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• quieter