Succumb vs Capitulate - What's the difference?
succumb | capitulate |
(lb) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
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(lb) To give up, or give in.
(lb) To die.
(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
As verbs the difference between succumb and capitulate
is that succumb is to yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire while capitulate is to draw up in chapters; to enumerate.succumb
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(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Jones was called into action to deny Ruiz with a fine tackle before succumbing to his injury.}}
Synonyms
* (die) See alsocapitulate
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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 .
