Capitulate

Quick meaning: Capitulate is a verb meaning (intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.

Meaning

(intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.

More Meanings

1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something).
4. Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated.
5. Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.
6. (botany) Having or forming a capitulum.
7. Alternative form of capitoulate

Example Sentences

The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.

The places of serpents abode being thus generally capitulated.

It was capitulate and convenanted, that […] the river Himera, […]

The lawes […] which we capitulate at sea […] are not used on lande.

Word Forms

• capitulates
• capitulating
• capitulated

Antonyms for capitulate

Common opposites include beat, convince, flog, humble, kick ass, malavogue.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include surrender, give, give up, succumb, yield, break down.

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