surrender vs yield

surrender

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

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

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

  • 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. 

yield

verb
  • To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate. 

  • To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. 

  • To produce as a result. 

  • To give, or give forth, (anything). 

  • To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law. 

  • To produce as return, as from an investment. 

  • To give way; to succumb to a force. 

  • To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation. 

  • To admit to be true; to concede; to allow. 

  • To give way; to allow another to pass first. 

noun
  • Profit earned from an investment; return on investment. 

  • A product; the quantity of something produced. 

  • The explosive energy value of a bomb, especially a nuke, usually expressed in tons of TNT equivalent. 

  • The current return as a percentage of the price of a stock or bond. 

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