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Capitulate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

verb-intransitive. To surrender under specified conditions; come to terms.

verb-intransitive. To give up all resistance; acquiesce. See Synonyms at yield.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.

v. To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.

v. To agree terms of surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

verb-intransitive. To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.

verb-intransitive. To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads).

v. To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To draw up a writing in chapters, heads, or articles; hence, to draw up articles of agreement; arrange terms of agreement; treat; also, to enter into an agreement; confederate.

To surrender to an enemy on stipulated conditions.

Having a capitulum or knob. Specifically

In botany, head-like: applied to the apothecium of a lichen when it is irregularly rounded or globular and seated on the apex of a stem-like portion of the thallus, as in Cladonia.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. surrender under agreed conditions

Word Usage

"Proponents think that if the alliance expands to include Georgia and Ukraine, the West will have "gotten the better of Russia," while to exclude those nations would be to "capitulate" to Moscow."

Verb Form

capitulated capitulates capitulating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

give up surrender

Form

capitulated capitulating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

agree surrender