capitulate
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Is capitulate a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of capitulate?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply.Examples: "He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop."; "The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated."; "The CCP has refused to capitulate to Trump’s demands to come to the table and renegotiate their terms of trade."Synonyms: wave the white flag, see Thesaurus:surrenderAntonyms: bite the dust, capitulate, eat someone's dust, forfeit, give up, lose, strike one's flag, surrenderintransitive
2. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.Examples: "The lawes […] which we capitulate at sea […] are not used on lande."; "The places of serpents abode being thus generally capitulated."ambitransitiveobsolete
3. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.Examples: "there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary"obsoletetransitive
4. (transitive, obsolete) To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something).obsoletetransitive
adj (English)
1. (obsolete, as a participle)Examples: "It was capitulate and convenanted, that […] the river Himera, […]"obsolete
2. (obsolete, as a participle)obsolete
3. (botany) Having or forming a capitulum.Examples: "The aggregation of flowers into capitulate inflorescences is a character directly advantageous from the aspect of the biological function of cross-pollination."
Definition source: Wiktionary