overrun vs surrender

overrun

verb
  • To defeat an enemy and invade in great numbers, seizing the enemy positions conclusively. 

  • To run past; to run beyond. 

  • To infest, swarm over, flow over. 

  • To continue for too long. 

  • To carry (some type, a line or column, etc.) backward or forward into an adjacent line or page. 

  • To abuse or oppress, as if by treading upon. 

  • To run past the end of. 

  • To go beyond; to extend in part beyond. 

noun
  • The amount by which something overruns. 

  • An instance of overrunning. 

  • An area of terrain beyond the end of a runway that is kept flat and unobstructed to allow an aircraft that runs off the end of the runway to stop safely. 

  • Air that is whipped into a frozen dessert to make it easier to serve and eat. 

surrender

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

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

  • 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. 

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