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capitulate

verb
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪt/
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪt/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they capitulate
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪt/
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪt/
he / she / it capitulates
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪts/
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past simple capitulated
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪd/
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪd/
past participle capitulated
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪd/
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪd/
-ing form capitulating
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪŋ/
🔊/kəˈpɪtʃuleɪtɪŋ/
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  1. [intransitive] capitulate (to somebody/something) to agree to do something that you have been refusing to do for a long time屈服；屈从 synonym give in (to somebody/something) synonym yield (2)
    • They were finally forced to capitulate to the terrorists' demands.他们最后被迫屈从恐怖分子的要求。🔊🔊
    Topics Discussion and agreementc2
  2. [intransitive] capitulate (to somebody/something) to stop resisting an enemy and accept that you are defeated投降 synonym surrender
    • The town capitulated after a three-week siege.这座城镇被围困三个星期后投降了。🔊🔊
    3. Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘parley, draw up terms’): from French capituler, from medieval Latin capitulare ‘draw up under headings’, from Latin capitulum, diminutive of caput ‘head’.