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surrenderer

surrenderer noun: one who surrenders.

Noun

surrenderer (plural surrenderers)

  1. One who surrenders.
    • I will warrant him hanged and one or two of his fellows, but you must not tell your shirt of this yet;" and when he was congratulating the government on his having at length procured the execution of Captain Hemart, the surrenderer of Grave, he added, pithily, "and you shall hear that Mr. P. B....1867, John Lothrop Motley, Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete
    • A massive desk lamp shields him almost entirely from the client, who's left to contemplate a framed photograph of the professional surrenderer planting his flag atop a hill.2004 March 19, Justin Hayford, “Good Things in Small Spaces”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of surrenderer

pluralsurrenderers

Origin of surrenderer

From surrender + -er.

Questions about surrenderer

What does surrenderer mean?
Surrenderer means one who surrenders.
What part of speech is surrenderer?
Surrenderer is a noun.
What is the plural of surrenderer?
The plural of surrenderer is surrenderers.

Words near surrenderer in the dictionary

  1. surrenderable
  2. surrendered
  3. surrendered at discretion
  4. surrenderee
  5. surrenderees
  6. surrenderer
  7. surrenderers
  8. surrenderest
  9. surrendereth
  10. surrenderies
  11. surrendering

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