The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word YIELDED
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More clues leading to the result YIELDED
- Messing around idly, Dee gave up
- Did Lee collapse after Confederacy finally surrendered?
- Handed over bore
- Surrendered garland swept up in swirling eddy
- When out of whiskey wild-eyed crazy gave in
- Gave up
- Gave way under pressure and resigned
- Produced and given away
- Having submitted could have made Eddy lie
- Produced admitted superiority
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The straight part
We know that "surrendered" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case surrendered = yielded.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does YIELDED mean?
YIELDED verb- To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite.
- To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth.
- To give way; to allow another to pass first.
- To give as required; to surrender, relinquish or capitulate.
- To give, or give forth, (anything).
- To give way; to succumb to a force.
- To produce as return, as from an investment.
- To produce as a result.
- To produce a particular sound as the result of a sound law.
- (of a material specimen) To pass the material's yield point and undergo plastic deformation.
- To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.