capitulate

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
18
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/ (UK)
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/kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/ (UK) · /kəˈpɪ.t͡ʃə.leɪt/ (UK) · /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.leɪt/ (US) · /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jə.leɪt/ (US) · /kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.lət/ (UK) · /kəˈpɪ.t͡ʃə.lət/ (UK) · /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.lət/ (US) · /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jə.lət/ (US)

Definition of capitulate

8 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.
    “He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.”
    “The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.”
    “The CCP has refused to capitulate to Trump’s demands to come to the table and renegotiate their terms of trade.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive)To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.
    “He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.”
    “The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.”
    “The CCP has refused to capitulate to Trump’s demands to come to the table and renegotiate their terms of trade.”
  2. (ambitransitive, obsolete)To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.
    “The lawes […] which we capitulate at sea […] are not used on lande.”
    “The places of serpents abode being thus generally capitulated.”
  3. (obsolete, transitive)To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.
    “there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary”
  4. (obsolete, transitive)To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something).

adj

  1. (obsolete)Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated.
    “It was capitulate and convenanted, that […] the river Himera, […]”
  2. (obsolete)Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.
  3. Having or forming a capitulum.
    “The aggregation of flowers into capitulate inflorescences is a character directly advantageous from the aspect of the biological function of cross-pollination.”

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of capitoulate

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Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1528, the verb in 1537; borrowed from Medieval Latin capitulātus perfect passive participle of Medieval Latin capitulō (“(originally; of a book, text) to draw…

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The adjective is first attested in 1528, the verb in 1537; borrowed from Medieval Latin capitulātus perfect passive participle of Medieval Latin capitulō (“(originally; of a book, text) to draw up under distinct headings; (from the 15ᵗʰ c.) to bargain, parley, convene”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), diminutive of caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

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