| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Capitulate.[Websters]
2. To be jilted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have conceded or ceded. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be deferred. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have submitted or presented. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have budged or retired. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have resigned, receded, demitted or departed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To have renounced or thanked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have dumped or disgorged. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To have settled or adjusted.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb capitulate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (capitulate) | 1. Surrender under agreed conditions.[Wordnet]. 2. To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.[Websters]. 3. To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.[Websters]. 4. To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: capitulating, capitulated, capitulates, capitulater, capitulaters, capitulatingly and capitulatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "CAPITULATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Specialty Definition: capitulate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] To draw up a writing in chapters, heads or articles. [But this sense is not usual.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Verb] To end all resistance; to give up; to go along with or comply; may imply compliance with an enemy or to end all resistance because of loss of hope He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop. (references) | ||
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