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What (who) is Capitulate - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Capitulations; Capitulate; Capitulating; Capitulates; Capitulated; Capitulation (disambiguation)
Capitulate
·vt To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.
II. Capitulate ·noun To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
III. Capitulate ·noun To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to Agree.
capitulate
[k?'p?tj?le?t]
¦ verb cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; surrender.
Derivatives
capitulator noun
Origin
C16 (in the sense 'parley, draw up terms'): from Fr. capituler, from med. L. capitulare 'draw up under headings', from L. capitulum, dimin. of caput 'head'.
capitulate
(capitulates, capitulating, capitulated)
If you capitulate, you stop resisting and do what someone else wants you to do.
The club eventually capitulated and now grants equal rights to women...
In less than two hours Cohen capitulated to virtually every demand.
= submit, yield
VERB: V, V to n
Wikipedia
Capitulation
Capitulation may have the following special meanings.
- Capitulation (surrender)
- Stock market capitulation
- Capitulation (treaty)
- Capitulations of the Ottoman Empire
- Capitulation (algebra)
- Conclave capitulation
- Electoral capitulation
Examples of use of Capitulate
1. Don‘t capitulate. . . . Don‘t let nobody intimidate or threaten you.
2. "The other possibility was for me to capitulate to extortion.
3. Voters would be invited to choose: Stand firm or capitulate.
4. But the universities must not capitulate to any conditions.
5. But he did not accept defeat or capitulate to coercion.