capitulate
verbVerb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they capitulate | |
| he / she / it capitulates | |
| past simple capitulated | |
| past participle capitulated | |
| -ing form capitulating |
- [intransitive] capitulate (to somebody/something)
to agree to do something that you have been refusing to do for a long time 屈服；屈从 - [intransitive] capitulate (to somebody/something)
to stop resisting an enemy and accept that you are defeated 投降
Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘parley, draw up terms’): from French capituler, from medieval Latin capitulare ‘draw up under headings’, from Latin capitulum, diminutive of caput ‘head’.