Sample Sentences forcapitulate (editor-reviewed)
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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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Italy has capitulated. (source)capitulated = surrendered
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For five days the hens held out, then they capitulated and went back to their nesting boxes. (source)capitulated = gave up
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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 had to convince Amy to come back to me, flush her out with compliments and capitulation.† (source)standard 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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I was ready to capitulate without a groan.† (source)
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Ah, it would seem the LEP have capitulated. (source)capitulated = 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)standard 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)
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Rousseau gave a capitulatory smile.† (source)
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The ExComm crew does not believe that Khrushchev's message is the sign of an outright capitulation.† (source)
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Were he to capitulate, rein Enrico in, and swear that his horse had been stung by a hornet or frightened by a train whistle, his fine and sentence might not be unbearable.† (source)
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