capitulate

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  1. intransitive verb To surrender under specified conditions; come to terms.
  2. intransitive verb To give up all resistance; acquiesce. See Synonyms at yield.

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  • The King made every effort to take the city before Prince Charles could bring his army from the Rhine to its relief General Harsh thought proper to capitulate, after a siege of twelve days, during which not more than five hundred men of the garrison, at the utmost, were killed and wounded, though eighteen thousand men were made prisoners Thus far we had met with no impediment. —  Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck
  • A cash payment down caused pater to capitulate, and the boy went to work—aged fourteen. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters
  • And unless you capitulate, all further discussion will only yield more anger. —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • When they will not capitulate, they are tortured and killed. —  Commonweal Magazine
  • Did they believe that their Northern associates would again capitulate, as they had done so often before? —  The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement
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  1. Medieval Latin capitulāre, capitulāt-, to draw up in chapters, from capitulum, chapter; see chapter.

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  1. from Middle Latin capitulatus, past participle of capitulare, arrange in heads or chapters, hence arrange conditions (especially of surrender), from Latin capitulum, a chapter: see capitulum, capitular, and chapter.
 

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