capitulate
verb (used without object)
to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms.
capitulator
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a word derived from
capitulate.
Example Sentences
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People came from all over the country who had heard of Cornwallis and his wonderful genius as a capitulator.
From Comic History of the United States by F. Opper
Moreover, in November he had replaced old Colonel Gardner, a Northern veteran of "1812," by Page 3 Anderson the Southerner, in whom he hoped to find a good capitulator.
From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by William Charles Henry Wood
