capitulate
See also: capitoulate
English
Etymology
From the participle stem of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin capitulare (“draw up under headings”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”), diminutive of caput (“head”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
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- (intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
- He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
- Macaulay
- The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
- (transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
- Heylin
- there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary
- Heylin
Synonyms
- (surrender, end resistance, give up): wave the white flag
Related terms
Translations
surrender; end all resistance; to give up; to go along with or comply
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