• (British) IPA: /kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪ.t͡ʃə.leɪt/
• (America) IPA: /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jʊ.leɪt/, /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.jə.leɪt/

capitulate (capitulates, present participle capitulating; past and past participle capitulated)

1. (intransitive) 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.

   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

2. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.

   • there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary

• (surrender, end resistance, give up) wave the white flag

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

• German: kapitulieren
• Portuguese: capitular
• Russian: капитули́ровать