different between surrender vs resign

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

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman resigner, Middle French resigner, and its source, Latin resign?re (“to unseal, annul, assign, resign”), from re- + sign?re (“to seal, stamp”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???za?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Verb

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

1. (transitive) To give up; to relinquish ownership of. [from 14th c.]
2. (transitive) To hand over (something to someone), place into the care or control of another.
3. (transitive or intransitive) To quit (a job or position). [from 14th c.]

   I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.

   He resigned the crown to follow his heart.

4. (transitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable. [from 15th c.]

   He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.

   • 1996, Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo, translation of, Alexandre Dumas, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 2003 Penguin edition, ?ISBN, page 394 [1]:

     Here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what resigned him to his fate?

Synonyms

• quit

Derived terms

• resignation
• resign oneself

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? sign

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?i??sa?n/

Verb

resign (third-person singular simple present resigns, present participle resigning, simple past and past participle resigned)

1. (proscribed) Alternative spelling of re-sign
   • 2020, Kevin McCarthy, mutt 2.0.0 released, mutt-announce mailing list, November 7 2020

     Lastly, a note that I have resigned my GPG key to extend the expiration date.

Usage notes

The spelling without the hyphen results in a heteronym and is usually avoided.

Anagrams

• Greins, Negris, Singer, nigres, re-nigs, reigns, renigs, resing, ringes, signer, singer