capitulate — قاموس الإنجليزية

فعل

1. To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.

   الاستعمال

   • لازم

   مرادفات

   wave the white flag

   أمثلة

   He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.

   The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.

   أمثلة إضافية (2)

   BEFORE school rocketed into his tiny world with about as much warning as a sputnik, my son knew only little hates. I knew he had got himself a bigger one when he said to me after his first day there: “School, I HATE IT!” He’s been hating it solidly ever since . . . for all of ten weeks. If I was school . . . I’d capitulate tomorrow. I’d bonfire the books, drain the inkwells and bust up the blackboard — if only he would stop hating. It’s wearing me out!

   The CCP has refused to capitulate to Trump’s demands to come to the table and renegotiate their terms of trade.

2. To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.

   الاستعمال

   • متعدٍ أو لازم
   • مهجور

   أمثلة

   The lawes […] which we capitulate at sea […] are not used on lande.

   The places of serpents abode being thus generally capitulated.

3. To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • متعدٍ

   أمثلة

   there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary

4. To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something).

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • متعدٍ

صفة

1. Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • as a participle

   أمثلة

   It was capitulate and convenanted, that […] the river Himera, […]

2. Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.

   الاستعمال

   • مهجور
   • as a participle

3. Having or forming a capitulum.

   أمثلة

   The aggregation of flowers into capitulate inflorescences is a character directly advantageous from the aspect of the biological function of cross-pollination.

فعل

1. surrender under agreed conditions

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   surrendergive up