Decrease and Surrender

decrease

A change downward.
- usage: "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales"
- synonyms: lessening, drop-off
A process of becoming smaller or shorter.
- synonyms: decrement
The amount by which something decreases.
- synonyms: decrement
The act of decreasing or reducing something.
- synonyms: diminution, reduction, step-down

Decrease in size, extent, or range.
- usage: "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"
- synonyms: diminish, lessen, fall
Make smaller.
- usage: "He decreased his staff"
- synonyms: lessen, minify

(v.t.) To cause to grow less; to diminish gradually; as, extravagance decreases one's means.
(v.) A becoming less; gradual diminution; decay; as, a decrease of revenue or of strength.
(n.) To grow less, -- opposed to increase; to be diminished gradually, in size, degree, number, duration, etc. or in strength, quality or excellence; as, they days decrease in length from June to December.
(v.) The wane of the moon.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

surrender

Acceptance of despair.
- synonyms: resignation
A verbal act of admitting defeat.
- synonyms: giving up, yielding
The delivery of a principal into lawful custody.
The act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions. )
- usage: "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort"
- synonyms: capitulation, fall

Give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another.
- usage: "The last Taleban fighters finally surrendered"
- synonyms: give up
Relinquish possession or control over.
- usage: "The squatters had to surrender the building after the police moved in"
- synonyms: cede, deliver, give up

(n.) The voluntary cancellation of the legal liability of the company by the insured and beneficiary for a consideration (called the surrender value).
(v.t.) To yield to any influence, emotion, passion or power; -- used reflexively; as, to surrender one's self to grief, to despair, to indolence or to sleep.
(v.t.) To give up possession of; to yield; to resign; as, to surrender a right, privilege or advantage.
(n.) The act of surrendering; the act of yielding or resigning one's person or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right.
(v.t.) To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ship.
(n.) The delivery up of fugitives from justice by one government to another, as by a foreign state. See Extradition.
(n.) The yielding of a particular estate to him who has an immediate estate in remainder or reversion.
(v.t.) To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion.
(v.i.) To give up one's self into the power of another; to yield; as, the enemy, seeing no way of escape, surrendered at the first summons.
(n.) The giving up of a principal into lawful custody by his bail.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Giving up leasehold rights by a tenant in exchange for a release from future obligations under a lease.