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Capitulate vs Sucumb - What's the difference?

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capitulate

English

Verb

(capitulat)
  • (obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
  • (obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
  • * Heylin
    • there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary
  • To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
    • He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
  • * Macaulay
    • The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .

    Synonyms

    * wave the white flag

    Related terms

    * chapiter * chapter * capital * capitalism * captain * capitulation * capitulatory * recapitulate

    sucumb

    Not English

    Sucumb has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'sucumb':

    succumb