I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
never
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Meanwhile, Governor Barnett, after his earlier state-ments indicating acquiescence, went on the air to declare he would never surrender .
■ NOUN
authority
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In 1983 Devi surrendered to the authorities , reportedly having been promised that she would stay behind bars for only eight years.
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Coggan said Parretti had surrendered his passport to authorities here as a condition of his bail.
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Critics accused Mr Berlusconi of surrendering the authority of the state to a few thousand extremists who could now claim victory.
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He urged persons wanted by the police in connection with the riots to surrender to the authorities or to him.
power
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After Diocletian had surrendered power there was a time of confusion until Constantine the Great became Emperor in 324.
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Once one-person-one-vote is accepted, some have already signalled a willingness to surrender much of their power .
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Congress has surrendered vast powers to independent federal agencies over which it and the president have little or no authority.
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Congress surrendered some of its power Thursday and gave the presidency the authority to veto individual items in spending bills.
weapon
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The Brigade was designed to assist the civilian commission to coax people to surrender weapons , possibly in return for money payments.
■ VERB
force
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The Cavaliers occupied Burghley House, but they were heavily outnumbered, and Cromwell forced them to surrender after a bitter siege.
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The rebels were forced to surrender , and the incident was closed.
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In this way, the Nationalists hoped to force the Basques to surrender .
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Marchers who had cameras were forced to surrender their film, Fiim was also confiscated at the police station from those arrested.
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The first chilling scene of a reporter being forced to surrender his notebook, a photographer his film, unfolded.
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Yet they were ultimately surrounded and forced to surrender .
order
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She also ordered him to surrender his passport.
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Mann also ordered them to surrender their passports and restricted their travel to New York and New Jersey.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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19 rebels hiding in the Czech embassy surrendered to the authorities.
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All three gunmen had surrendered by the end of the day.
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Finally, on April 16th, the enemy surrendered.
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The President has indicated that he intends to surrender power on February 7th.
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They promised to abide by the peace agreement and surrender all their weapons to the occupying forces.
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Ventura has agreed to surrender custody of all six of her children.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the people of Glastonbury aren't going to surrender their king without a fight, as Clare Lafferty reports.
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But the starkness of the imagery also surrenders symbolic overtones.
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In 1637, when Stanhope was persuaded to surrender his patent, Witherings took control of the whole postal system.
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Many of the most-feared militants were shot, and more than 700 of them surrendered.
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Six armed proctors surround me and demand I surrender my blank examination-book.
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They told Weary that he and Billy had better find somebody to surrender to.
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Whipped by bad fortune, surrendering to the inexorable gravity of downward-sliding consequences, Edna enforced home order without compromise.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
unconditional
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August 1945, to an unconditional surrender .
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Instead, they issued the Potsdam Declaration, calling again for unconditional surrender on pain of great destruction.
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But he has made standing up to the teaching unions his thing. Unconditional surrender was more than his fragile ego could bear.
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In this case, however, unconditional surrender was now required.
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Hopes of a compromise peace stood no chance in the face of Franco's determination to pursue the Republic's unconditional surrender .
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Tonight the staff accepted the council's unconditional surrender with a bottle of champagne.
■ VERB
accept
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It was nearly impossible to get them to accept a surrender .
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John Durnford-Slater would have accepted this sailor's surrender , but a more angry commando shot the bomber dead.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Colonel Casado was anxious to negotiate a surrender .
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General Haig would accept nothing less than unconditional surrender .
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The Milanese were starving, and forced into surrender .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A surrender value may not be available if premiums have been paid for less than two years.
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Beauty on the verge of surrender , and thus all the more beautiful.
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But this will entail major political concessions by the government, including the surrender of the state monopoly over electronic media.
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I do not accept that the proposal represents a major surrender of sovereignty.
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It held passion and fire, it was a kiss of domination that asked for surrender yet promised surrender in return.
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Philosophy, by contrast, does not elaborate a mode of experience but rather requires its surrender .
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Then he let down bundles of lighted straw to kill them or choke them into surrender .