Capitulate vs Surrender - What's the difference?
capitulate | surrender |
(obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
(obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
* Heylin
To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
* Macaulay
To give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically (military) to yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.
(intransitive, or, reflexive) To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in.
To give up possession of; to yield; to resign.
(reflexive) To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc.
To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet.
An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.
The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand.
(legal, property law) The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists.
Surrender is a synonym of capitulate.
As verbs the difference between capitulate and surrender
is that capitulate is to draw up in chapters; to enumerate while surrender is to give up into the power, control, or possession of another; specifically to yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy.As a noun surrender is
an act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation.capitulate
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Verb
(capitulat)- there capitulates with the king to take to wife his daughter Mary
- He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
- The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated .
Synonyms
* wave the white flagsurrender
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Alternative forms
* surrendre (archaic)Verb
(en verb)- I surrender !
- to surrender a right, privilege, or advantage
- ''to surrender oneself to grief, to despair, to indolence, or to sleep