Capitulate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CAPITULATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to yield, accept terms
• cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; yield
• To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions.
• surrender under agreed conditions
NOUN:
• To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.
• To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• parley, negotiate

Words related to CAPITULATE

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Words that contain CAPITULATE

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How to use CAPITULATE in a sentence

• After this he had himself to fall back with his troops, and was compelled to capitulate to the superior French force.
• Those within consisted, for the most part, of priests, who being adverse to the bloody business of war, in a few days solicited permission to capitulate.
• Next morning, while it was scarcely clear day, they proposed to capitulate, and it was agreed, that such as were natives of Samnium should be dismissed with single garments.
• The junction of these armies presenting before Montreal a force not to be resisted, the Governor offered to capitulate.
• Meanwhile being afraid that Cicero in despair of assistance might suffer disaster or capitulate, he sent forward a horseman.
• It was only on the knowledge that her father, in his speculations, had made away with the annuity from Joseph that poverty and misery made her capitulate.
• The garrison thereupon offered to capitulate, and an unconditional surrender was demanded.
• Sire de Bievres, a loyal servant, but a soldier of but little energy, determined to capitulate.
• Naturally, Skaggs felt deeply aggrieved with the fate which permitted him to capitulate when unconditional surrender was so close at hand.
• Then, of course, the Government will capitulate, and the country will go Bolshevik from excessive taxation.
• But famine would soon have compelled him to capitulate, had not the King of Bohemia, with a force of thirteen thousand men, marched to his aid.
• Three weeks later, confronted by overwhelming numbers, he was forced to capitulate at Saratoga, whither he had retreated.
• Montfort was shut up in Nantes, was forced to capitulate, and sent prisoner to Paris.
• I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
• The Governor, indeed, when he signs, adds a flourish of reasons inducing him to capitulate, one of which is the generosity of his enemy.
• She indeed would be forced to capitulate through starvation.
• Sauver, a French captain, and his company of grenadiers, until he was obliged to capitulate for want of water and provisions.
• Preparations being made for a general assault, the besieged thought proper to capitulate, and surrendered themselves prisoners of war.
• He attacked it so vigorously, that the garrison was obliged to capitulate in four-and-forty hours.
• Speaking of the French, Count Bismarck observed that there were 200,000 men round Metz, and he believed that Bazaine would have to capitulate within a week.
• The working men who performed this feat seemed only to be actuated by a wild desire to fight out their battle with the Prussians, and not to capitulate.
• Trochu, it is true, has said that he would not capitulate, but we know what that means.
• And then she would cheerfully capitulate and go back with him to his beloved North, to the Klappan or the ranch or wherever he chose.
• If the damage they did on the opposite side were enough to force the enemy to capitulate in haste, the other four guns would remain silent, and El Paso intact.
• Then the senate was held and instructions were given to the military tribunes to capitulate.
• Finally, a party of citizens interviewed Von Hompesch and threatened to surrender the town if he refused to capitulate.
• Even then Peter, utterly miserable, had refused to capitulate, when to capitulate would have meant the surrender of the house in the Siebensternstrasse.
• To such a man a woman might well capitulate if capitulation was her intent.
• Thus did her New England conscience battle to the end, and, in the end, capitulate to love.
• This time he left a garrison, but in the same year the French commander, Poincy, came with a strong force and compelled the garrison to capitulate.
• It was trifling, however, and did not suffice to prevent many of his generals from uniting to advise him to capitulate.
• She so evidently enjoys a defensive warfare, wherein it is the besiegers who capitulate, that she may maintain it until my exile abroad is over.
• In that winter Potidaea was forced to capitulate to the Athenians.
• Buller had failed at Vaalkrantz, and the diamond men of Kimberley were threatening to capitulate.
• The city, after an unavailing attempt at defense, was compelled to capitulate.
• The garrison there was so vigorously bombarded that it was driven to capitulate, but only on condition that the safety of the garrison would be guaranteed.

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