capture vs surrender

capture

verb
  • To take control of; to seize by force or stratagem. 

  • To remove or take control of an opponent’s piece in a game (e.g., chess, go, checkers). 

  • To reproduce convincingly. 

  • To store (as in sounds or image) for later revisitation. 

noun
  • Something that has been captured; a captive. 

  • An act of capturing; a seizing by force or stratagem. 

  • A particular match found for a pattern in a text string. 

  • The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction. 

  • The recording or storage of something for later playback. 

surrender

verb
  • To give up into the power, control, or possession of another. 

  • To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy. 

  • To give up possession of; to yield; to resign. 

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

  • For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value. 

  • To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet. 

  • To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in. 

noun
  • An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation. 

  • The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words capture and surrender occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )