capitulate
verb (used without object)
to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms.
has capitulated
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present perfectof capitulate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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No team in Premier League history has capitulated to that extent.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
On moral ground, the speaker has capitulated even more of who he was.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 11, 2018
Critics, including inside the United Nations, point out that the peacekeeping mission has capitulated too often to government pressure.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2014
Even the venerable Joy of Cooking has capitulated to the trend; recipes that used to provide meals for six now feed only four.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the most part, whenever the puritan imagines that the poet has capitulated, he is mistaken, and the apparent self-denial in the poet's life is really an exquisite sort of epicureanism.
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins
