capitulate — English Dictionary

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capitulate

Word-form referencescapitoulate

Pronunciations (10)

Verb

To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.
Usage
- Intransitive
Synonyms
wave the white flag

Examples

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

The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.

More examples (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.
To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.
Usage
- Transitive or intransitive
- Obsolete
Examples

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

The places of serpents abode being thus generally capitulated.
To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.
Usage
- Obsolete
- Transitive
Examples

there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary
To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something).
Usage
- Obsolete
- Transitive

Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated.
Usage
- Obsolete
- as a participle
Examples

It was capitulate and convenanted, that […] the river Himera, […]
Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.
Usage
- Obsolete
- as a participle
Having or forming a capitulum.

Examples

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

Word forms

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