capitulate — Englisches Wörterbuch

Verb

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

   Gebrauch

   • intransitiv

   Synonyme

   wave the white flag

   Beispiele

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

   The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.

   Weitere Beispiele (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.

   Gebrauch

   • transitiv oder intransitiv
   • außer Gebrauch

   Beispiele

   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.

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch
   • transitiv

   Beispiele

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

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

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch
   • transitiv

Adjektiv

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

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch
   • as a participle

   Beispiele

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

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

   Gebrauch

   • außer Gebrauch
   • as a participle

3. Having or forming a capitulum.

   Beispiele

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

Verb

1. surrender under agreed conditions

   Oberbegriffe

   surrendergive up