Capitulate

Definition: Capitulate

Capitulate

Verb

1. Surrender under agreed conditions.

Date "capitulate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Submission	Surrender, surrender at discretion; cede, capitulate, come to terms, retreat, beat a retreat; draw in one's horns; (humility); give way, give round, give in, give up; cave in; suffer judgment by default; bend, bend to one's yoke, bend before the storm; reel back; bend down, knuckle down, knuckle to, knuckle under; knock under.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Capitulate

English words defined with "capitulate": Capitulated, Capitulating. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

Rachel? Well, Rachel has a home and parents who love her. She's a follower, not a leader. She can be guided. But, Mary oh, Mary has a will of iron. To bend but not to break to yield but not capitulate to have pride but also humility. (The Trouble with Angels; writing credit: Jane Trahey; Blanche Hanalis)

I don't capitulate. (The Man Who Wasn't There; writing credit: Joel Coen; Ethan Coen)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller	A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Communist Manifesto	1848	The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Serbia and Montenegro	Milosevic's campaign and failure to capitulate to resolutions agreed upon in the Rambouillet Accords provoked a military response from NATO which consisted primarily of aerial bombing and lasted from late March 1999 through late June 1999. For the duration of Milosevic's campaign, enormous masses of ethnic Albanians were either displaced from their homes in Kosovo or killed by Serbian troops or police. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Capitulate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 93.02% of the time. "Capitulate" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	93.02%	40	54,274
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.98%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

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Language		Translations for "capitulate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kapitulloj (surrender), dorëzohem (come around, give in, give oneself up, knuckle under, succumb, surrender, throw up one's hands, throw up the sponge). (various references)

Arabic		‏كف عن المقاومة, ‏إستسلم (cave, give in, give up, give way to, hands up, lay down, resign, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in one's hand), ‏أذعن (acquiesce, bow, comply, defer, knuckle under). (various references)

Bulgarian		капитулирам (surrender), предавам се (descend, fall, give in, give oneself, give way to, lend, resign, say uncle, strike, surrender). (various references)

Chinese		投降 (Capitulated, Capitulating, Capitulation, surrender, surrendered, Surrendering). (various references)

Czech		kapitulovat (surrender). (various references)

Dutch		zich overgeven (abandon oneself, surrender), capituleren (surrender). (various references)

Esperanto		kapitulaci (surrender). (various references)

Faeroese		gevast (surrender), ganga til ryggjar (surrender). (various references)

Farsi		تسلیم شدن (Abandon, Acquiesce, Defer, Givein, Knuckle, Obey, Quit, Submit, Succumb, Surrender, Vouchsafe). (various references)

Finnish		antautua (devote oneself to, enter, enter into, give oneself up, surrender, take up, yield oneself). (various references)

French		capituler. (various references)

German		kapitulieren (cave in, give up, surrender, to capitulate), sich ergeben (arise, come to light, devote oneself to, ensue, follow, follow on, give in, give up, hold forth, open up, present, result, sink into, submit, surrender, take to, yield). (various references)

Greek		συνθηκολογό. (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"כ� ע (buckle under, give in, give up, give way to, knuckle under, resign, submit, succumb, surrender, throw in ones hand, yield). (various references)

Hungarian		megadja magát (ask for quarter, give up, lay down arms, succumb, to capitulate, to cave in, to cry craven, to knock under, to knuckle down, to knuckle under, to lower one's flag, to show the white feather, to strike one's flag, to succumb, to surrender, to throw in one's hand, to throw in the towel, to yield, to yield oneself, yield), leteszi a fegyvert (lay down arms, to lay down arms, to lay down the arms, to show the white feather). (various references)

Indonesian		menyerah (give up, surrender). (various references)

Italian		arrendersi (give up, hand over, knuckle under, surrender), capitolare (capitualte, capitular, surrender). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		軍門に降る (to capitulate, to surrender), 弱音�'はく (to capitulate, to say die, to whine). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぐ�"も�"にく� る (to capitulate, to surrender), よわね�'はく (to capitulate, to say die, to whine). (various references)

Pig Latin		apitulatecay

Portuguese		capitular (chapter, characterize, list, render, succumb, surrender). (various references)

Romanian		capitula (surrender), se preda (deliver oneself up, surrender, yield). (various references)

Russian		сдаваться (give in, give up, surrender, throw in one's hand), капитулировать (surrender). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		predati se (give oneself up, lend oneself to), kapitulirati (eject). (various references)

Spanish		capitular (capitualte, catch-letter, drop capital, dropped capital, surrender). (various references)

Swedish		kapitulera. (various references)

Thai		ยอมทำตาม (cave in, cooperate). (various references)

Turkish		teslim olmak (give in, give oneself up, knuckle down, knuckle under, lay down arms, lay down one's arms, resign, resign oneself to, surrender), teslim şartlarını kararlaştırmak, teslím olmak (surrender), silâhları bırakmak (lay down arms). (various references)

Ukranian		укладати угоду (bargain, covenant), капітулювати, вести переговори (bargain, negotiate, parley), здаватися (appear, give in, surrender, yield up), домовлятися (agree, agree on, agree upon, appoint, arrange, bargain, bespeak, book, close, concert, negotiate, settle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "capitulate": capitulated, capitulates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "capitulate": recapitulate. (additional references)
	Words containing "capitulate": recapitulated, recapitulates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Capitulate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: capitualte, capitulale, capitulalte, captitulate, copitulate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "capitulate" (pronounced kupi"khuwlā't)
4	-uw l ā' t	angulate, ejaculate.
3	-l ā' t	accumulate, adulate, annihilate, articulate, assimilate, boilerplate, breastplate, calculate, circulate, coagulate, congratulate, contemplate, copulate, correlate, depopulate, distillate, electroplate, emulate, encapsulate, escalate, extrapolate, flagellate, formulate, gastrulate, inoculate, insulate, interpolate, isolate, lanceolate, legislate, manipulate, miscalculate, mutilate, nameplate, oscillate, overregulate, percolate, populate, postulate, recalculate, recapitulate, reformulate, regulate, reregulate, simulate, speculate, stimulate, stipulate, strangulate, tabulate, titillate, undulate, vacillate, ventilate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-p-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: apiculate.
	-2 letters: apatetic, capitate, capitula, catapult.
	-3 letters: actuate, apatite, capital, cattail, cuittle, lactate, lattice, peculia, placate, plateau, plicate, tactile, tactual, tapetal.
	-4 letters: acetal, actual, acuate, aculei, aecial, apical, aplite, atelic, capita, caplet, cattie, cattle, culpae, cutlet, cuttle, epical, luetic, palace, palate, pattie, placet, plaice, plicae, plutei, tapeta, teacup, tectal, tipcat, uptilt.
	-5 letters: aceta, acute, aecia.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-l-p-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: capitulated, capitulates, particulate.
	+2 letters: particulates, recapitulate.
	+3 letters: recapitulated, recapitulates.
	+4 letters: recapitulating, recapitulation.
	+5 letters: antispeculation, antispeculative, particularities, recapitulations, therapeutically, unacceptability, unanticipatedly.
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