All 3 Uses of
capitulate
in
Leaves of Grass
- Retreating they had form'd in a hollow square with their baggage for
breastworks,
Nine hundred lives out of the surrounding enemies, nine times their
number, was the price they took in advance,
Their colonel was wounded and their ammunition gone,
They treated for an honorable capitulation, receiv'd writing and
seal, gave up their arms and march'd back prisoners of war.†Chpt 3capitulation = surrender
- Every one else seem'd fill'd with gloom,
Many no doubt thought of capitulation.†Chpt 21
- But when my General pass'd me,
As he stood in his boat and look'd toward the coming sun,
I saw something different from capitulation.†Chpt 21 *
Definition:
to stop resisting something -- such as surrendering to someone else's decision or accepting a military defeat