| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To surrender or submit.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle 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] | |
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Date "CAPITULATING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (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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