SURRENDER

Surrender

"Surrender" is a single by Cheap Trick released in June 1978 from the album Heaven Tonight. It was the first Cheap Trick single to enter the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 62. Its success in Japan, as well as the success of its preceding singles "Clock Strikes Ten" and "I Want You to Want Me", paved the way for Cheap Trick's famous concerts at Nippon Budokan in Tokyo in April 1978 that were recorded for the group's most popular album Cheap Trick at Budokan. The "Rolling Stone" deemed it "the ultimate Seventies teen anthem" and ranked it #471 on its list of "the 500 Greatest Songs ...

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surrender

Noun

  1. An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
  2. The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
  3. 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.

Verb

  1. To give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically to yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
  2. To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in to.
  3. To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
    to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage
  4. To yield (oneself) to any influence, emotion, passion, or power.
    ''to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep


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