The difference between Overgive and Surrender
When used as verbs, overgive means to give too lavishly, whereas surrender means to give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
Surrender is also noun with the meaning: an act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another.
check bellow for the other definitions of Overgive and Surrender
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Overgive as a verb (ambitransitive):
To give too lavishly.
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Overgive as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To give over, hand over, surrender; to relinquish.
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Overgive as a verb (obsolete, transitive):
To give up, terminate.
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Surrender as a verb (transitive):
To give up into the power, control, or possession of another.
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Surrender as a verb (military, by extension, transitive):
To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
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Surrender as a verb (intransitive, or, reflexive):
To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
Examples:
"I surrender!"
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Surrender as a verb (transitive):
To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
Examples:
"to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage"
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Surrender as a verb (reflexive):
To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
Examples:
"to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep"
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Surrender as a verb (ambitransitive, blackjack):
To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
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Surrender as a verb (transitive, insurance):
For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value.
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Surrender as a noun:
An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
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Surrender as a noun:
The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
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Surrender as a noun (legal, property law):
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.