Associations to the word «Capitulate»

Wiktionary

CAPITULATE, verb. (obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
CAPITULATE, verb. (obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
CAPITULATE, verb. To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.

Dictionary definition

CAPITULATE, verb. Surrender under agreed conditions.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats