Capitulate
verb
To stop fighting an enemy or opponent; to admit that they have won.
After heavy losses, the troops were forced to capitulate.
Often appears as...
- capitulate to pressure
- forced to capitulate
verb
To accept something reluctantly but without protest.
She finally capitulated and agreed to do the task.
Often appears as...
- capitulate to demands
- quickly capitulate
verb
To stop fighting an enemy or opponent; to admit that they have won.
After heavy losses, the troops were forced to capitulate.
Often appears as...
- capitulate to pressure
- forced to capitulate
verb
To accept something reluctantly but without protest.
She finally capitulated and agreed to do the task.
Often appears as...
- capitulate to demands
- quickly capitulate
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Conflict Related
Use 'capitulate' when referring to the end of a struggle or battle, especially wars or fights.
The general refused to capitulate even when surrounded.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Capitulate' carries a sense of giving in after a period of resistance and often implies a loss of dignity.
Despite their efforts, the negotiation team had to capitulate.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Voluntary
'Capitulate' may suggest that the surrender was not by choice, but due to being overpowered.
Cornered by the evidence, the accused had to capitulate.
Pro Tip 1/3Conflict Related
Use 'capitulate' when referring to the end of a struggle or battle, especially wars or fights.
The general refused to capitulate even when surrounded.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Capitulate' carries a sense of giving in after a period of resistance and often implies a loss of dignity.
Despite their efforts, the negotiation team had to capitulate.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Voluntary
'Capitulate' may suggest that the surrender was not by choice, but due to being overpowered.
Cornered by the evidence, the accused had to capitulate.
Pro Tip 1/3Conflict Related
Use 'capitulate' when referring to the end of a struggle or battle, especially wars or fights.
The general refused to capitulate even when surrounded.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Capitulate' carries a sense of giving in after a period of resistance and often implies a loss of dignity.
Despite their efforts, the negotiation team had to capitulate.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Voluntary
'Capitulate' may suggest that the surrender was not by choice, but due to being overpowered.
Cornered by the evidence, the accused had to capitulate.
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Video examples
Philip Howard: Four ways...
when he turned the paper in late. The principal didn't want to stand up to the parent because he didn't want to get dragged into some legal proceedings. So, she had to go to meeting after meeting, same arguments made over and over again. After 30 days of sleepless nights, she finally capitulated and raised the grade.
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Philip Howard: Four ways...
when he turned the paper in late. The principal didn't want to stand up to the parent because he didn't want to get dragged into some legal proceedings. So, she had to go to meeting after meeting, same arguments made over and over again. After 30 days of sleepless nights, she finally capitulated and raised the grade.
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Quote examples
Kobe Bryant
American Basketball Player
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
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Simon Conway Morris
British Scientist
The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.
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John Lithgow
American Actor
I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.
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Anne Frank
German Writer
After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
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Alice Walker
American Author
I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.
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Ken Hensley
English Musician
If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.
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George P. Shultz
American Public Servant
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
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Kim Brooks
American Writer
I allow myself to feel fear without always capitulating to it... You don't have to live your life by fear.
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Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
Quote examples
Kobe Bryant
American Basketball Player
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
Quote examples
Simon Conway Morris
British Scientist
The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capitulation, and one should realize that there are some things that we may never understand and, to that extent, should be humbled by that.
Quote examples
John Lithgow
American Actor
I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.
Quote examples
Anne Frank
German Writer
After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
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Alice Walker
American Author
I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.
Quote examples
Ken Hensley
English Musician
If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.
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George P. Shultz
American Public Servant
Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.
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Kim Brooks
American Writer
I allow myself to feel fear without always capitulating to it... You don't have to live your life by fear.
Quote examples
Friedrich Schiller
German Dramatist
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
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Samuel Johnson
English Writer
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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