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verb (capitulat, es)
  1. To end all resistance; to give up; to go along with or comply; may imply compliance with an enemy or to end all resistance because of loss of hope
    He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.
Etymology: From capitulum < caput "head"


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