🇬🇧🇨🇳 surrender - 投降 : English Lesson

Meaning of "surrender" ("投降"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Surrender is the moment when a person or team decides to stop fighting, stops trying to win, and admits the other side has won, like saying, “Okay, you got me!” in a battle, game, or argument.

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After ten minutes of tickling, my surrender was official when I rolled off the couch and squeaked, “I give up!”

The cat’s surrender was obvious when he let the toddler put a pirate hat and three stickers on his head.

At the spelling bee, my brain’s surrender came when the word had more silent letters than actual sounds.

My taste buds’ surrender to sour candy was marked by my face folding into at least seven different shapes.

The hamster’s surrender to exercise was clear when he stopped on the wheel and just stared at me like, “You run if you like it so much.”

She raised a small white cloth, a surrender. The surrender stunned the crowd who had cheered her fight. A father offered his surrender too, hands empty. The two surrender acts met like soft flags; the field went quiet. No more shouts, just two people holding surrender gently and breathing relief.

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This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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