Difference between Yielding and Surrender

What is the difference between Yielding and Surrender?

Yielding as a verb is to pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite. while Surrender as a verb is to give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically (military) to yield (land, a town, etc.) to an enemy.

Yielding

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: docile, or inclined to give way to pressure

Part of speech: noun

Definition: a concession

Surrender

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically (Military) to yield (land, a town, etc.) to an enemy.To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in to.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.

Example sentence: The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.

We hope you now know whether to use Yielding or Surrender in your sentence.

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