Lie dying, perhaps, and surrender (8)
I believe the answer is:
yielding
'surrender' is the definition.
(I know that surrender can be written as yielding)
'lie dying perhaps' is the wordplay.
'perhaps' indicates an anagram.
'lie'+'dying'='liedying'
'liedying' anagrammed gives 'YIELDING'.
'and' is the link.
(Other definitions for yielding that I've seen before include "elastic" , "Amenable" , "Succumbing" , "Ceding, conceding" , "Backing down" .)