Giving and transferring

Synonyms for surrender

The synonym for surrender recorded in this bank is deliver, in the sense "relinquish possession or control over". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 2 puzzles

The synonym for surrender

deliververb, in the sense "relinquish possession or control over"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for surrender.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsGiving and transferring

relinquish possession or control over

The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

deliver

Same sentence, swapped: The squatters had to deliver the building after the police moved in.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for surrender in the sentence quoted.

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grant
dump

Where surrender turns up in the game

surrender is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where surrender is the trap

retreatverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is withdraw, in the sense "to move back or withdraw from a position", so surrender is there to be ruled out.
adjustverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is adapt, in the sense "adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions", so surrender is there to be ruled out.

Play surrender

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so surrender reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Closest first: other giving and transferring words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

contributeverbdonateto give something, such as money or effort, as part of a shared effortFoothillsHas a reason line deliververbbringto bring and hand over something to its intended recipientFoothillsHas a reason line edgeverb, nounborderprovide with a border or edgeFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line endowverbfundto provide a permanent source of income or funding forFoothillsHas a reason line conveyverbtransferto legally transfer ownership of property to someoneTreelineHas a reason line fragmentedverbshatteredbroke apart into numerous small piecesFoothillsHas a reason line frameverbborderenclose in or as if in a frameFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line fraudnouncheatthe act of swindling by some fraudulent schemeFoothills

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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