What is another word for capitulates?

Pronunciation: [kɐpˈɪt͡ʃʊlˌe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Capitulate means to surrender or yield to an opponent's demands. When looking for synonyms to this word, we can find several similar verbs that denote submission or acquiescence. For example, submit, yield, give in, surrender, cave in, concede, and relent are all alternatives to the word capitulates. These words can be used interchangeably depending on the context and tone of the sentence. For instance, "he finally surrendered after a long standoff," "she conceded defeat after a heated argument," or "they yielded to the pressure of the opposing team." All of these sentences convey the same meaning as the sentence "he capitulated to his opponent's demands".

What are the hypernyms for Capitulates?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Capitulates

210; capitulates to France, 217 Hawarden Castle captured by Owen Glyndwr, iii.
"History of the English People, Index"
John Richard Green
This lady lays siege to him; he lets himself be besieged, and neither resists nor capitulates.
"The Saint"
Antonio Fogazzaro Commentator: William Roscoe Thayer
Anne capitulates with a suddenness which has been generally and rightly pronounced a blot on the play; but her husband is informed by a servant and resolves to discover the pair.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury

Famous quotes with Capitulates

  • And so in City after City, street-barricades are piled, and truculent, more or less murderous insurrection begins; populace after populace rises, King after King capitulates or absconds; and from end to end of Europe Democracy has blazed up explosive, much higher, more irresistible and less resisted than ever before; testifying too sadly on what a bottomless volcano, or universal powder-mine of most inflammable mutinous chaotic elements, separated from us by a thin earth-rind, Society with all its arrangements and acquirements everywhere, in the present epoch, rests! The kind of persons who excite or give signal to such revolutions—students, young men of letters, advocates, editors, hot inexperienced enthusiasts, or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes, acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame,—might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch. Never till now did young men, and almost children, take such a command in human affairs.
    Thomas Carlyle
  • “When material needs are largely satisfied,” writes Carl Rogers, “as they tend to be for many people in this affluent society, individuals are turning to the psychological world, groping for a greater degree of authenticity and fulfillment.” The clear distinction between material and psychic needs is already the mystification; it capitulates to the ideology of the affluent society which affirms the material structure is sound, conceding only that some psychic and spiritual values might be lacking. Exactly this distinction sets up “authenticity” and “fulfillment” as so many more commodities for the shopper. Rather it is the fissure itself which is the source of the ills—between work and “free” time, material structure and psychological “world,” producers and consumers.
    Russell Jacoby

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