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The Romans induced many enemy armies to capitulate by offering good terms of surrender.capitulate = surrender
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The compromise that was announced, amounted to complete capitulation on the part of the company.
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As is often the case, the family surrounded the bed and watched him capitulate. (source)capitulate = stop resisting
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Ah, it would seem the LEP have capitulated. (source)capitulated = stopped resisting
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After May 1940 the good times were few and far between: first there was the war, then the capitulation and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. (source)capitulation = surrender
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Usually he capitulated, allowing himself to be outvoted, (source)capitulated = stopped resisting
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The capitulation of France is only weeks past, and already he has seen things he did not dream he would see in six lifetimes.† (source)capitulation = surrenderstandard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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These empires would give Japan the resources it needed, and fostered a hope that a surrounded China would capitulate.† (source)
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When he felt his position secure he capitulated to the rebels and led them against the government. (source)capitulated = surrendered (stopped resisting)
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I began to understand why Starkfield emerged from its six months' siege like a starved garrison capitulating without quarter. (source)capitulating = (that) stopped resisting
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That's what I like about you, Lenore, no easy capitulations.† (source)capitulations = instances of surrenderstandard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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—yes, more of courage than even will yet something of shrewdness too: the shrewdness acquired in excruciating driblets through the fifty years suddenly capitulant and retroactive or suddenly sprouting and flowering like a seed lain fallow in a vacuum or in a single iron clod Because be seemed to perceive without stopping, in that passage through the house which was an unbroken continuation of the long journey from Virginia, the pause not to greet his family but merely to pick up Jones and drag him on out to the brier-choked fields and fallen fences and clap axe or mattock into his hands, the one weak spot, the one spot vulnerable to assault in Miss Rosa's embattled spinsterhood, and to assa† (source)
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So London capitulates, no?† (source)capitulates = surrenders
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Rousseau gave a capitulatory smile.† (source)
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Jubilant at her capitulation, Lucius threw her hand from him and ripped up his own sleeve — "STOP!" shrieked Bellatrix, "Do not touch it, we shall all perish if the Dark Lord comes now!"† (source)capitulation = surrender
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He'd been condemned for earlier work, according to Miles, and had seemed to capitulate.† (source)
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