Usually means: Surrender or yield under pressure.
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  1. capitulate: Merriam-Webster
  2. capitulate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. capitulate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. capitulate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. capitulate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Capitulate, capitulate: Wordnik
  7. capitulate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. capitulate: Wiktionary
  9. capitulate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. capitulate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. capitulate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. capitulate: Dictionary.com
  13. capitulate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Capitulate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Capitulate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. capitulate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. capitulate: Rhymezone
  18. capitulate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. capitulate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. capitulate: FreeDictionary.org
  21. capitulate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. capitulate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. capitulate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. capitulate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. capitulate: Legal dictionary

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  1. capitulate: Idioms

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  1. capitulate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.

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