surrender
verb (used with object)
to yield (something) to the possession or power of another; deliver up possession of on demand or under duress.
were surrendering
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past progressiveof surrender.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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What troubled him now was the sense that people were surrendering that resolve.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 31, 2026
“They told us they were surrendering and then they came out one by one and put their guns on the ground,” said Siyamend Ali, the Y.P.G. media director.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2022
“Taliban fighters did not listen to us,” said Shuja, who had left his post in Helmand province when he heard that military units were surrendering en masse to the Taliban.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021
Hitler was already dead, and the surviving German forces in Berlin were surrendering to the advancing Soviet army.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2015
While the Russian officers were surrendering, a desperate struggle was carried on at the far end of the Malakoff enclosure, the Russians coming over the parapets in three heavy columns.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
