Past tense of surrender
regular verb
The past tense of surrender is surrendered. The past participle is also surrendered.
Forms of surrender
| Base form (V1) | surrender /səˈɹɛndə(ɹ)/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | surrendered |
| Past participle (V3) | surrendered |
| Present participle | surrendering |
| Third person singular | surrenders |
Surrendered in a sentence
- Two decided to hide, the others surrendered.From the entry others
- The soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered.From the entry throw down
- She lived in the moment, surrendered to whatever the day presented, and remained her true, original self.2010, Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, page 532. From the entry in the moment
- The beach front surrendered suddenly to a razory cluster of peaks.2009, David A. Ross, Calico Pennants. From the entry razory
- On Christmas Day the Allied forces on Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese.2009, Robyn Walker, “The Battle Rages”, in Sergeant Gander: A Canadian Hero, Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 69. From the entry Bowrington
Meaning of surrender
- verb To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
- verb To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
- verb To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
Questions about the past tense of surrender
- What is the past tense of surrender?
- The past tense of surrender is surrendered.
- What is the past participle of surrender?
- The past participle of surrender is surrendered.
- Is surrender a regular or irregular verb?
- Surrender is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: surrender (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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