capitulate
About 0.34 uses per million words.
Meaning
- verb To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
- verb To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.
- verb To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.
- verb To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something).
- adjective Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated. Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.
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- adjective Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated.
- adjective Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.
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- adjective Having or forming a capitulum.
Similar words
surrender give give up succumb yield give in break down cede pack up resign oneself
Often followed by
to and on in with at before or without
Word family
capitulated capitulates capitulating
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