capitulate
verb (used without object)
to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms.
is capitulating
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present progressiveof capitulate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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To keep going when your eyes are failing - when your body is capitulating.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2024
However, there are signs that the stock is capitulating.
From Forbes ● Mar. 19, 2013
Yahoo: "Scrabble, one of the last bastions of grammatical purism in a world overrun by cell phone text abbreviations, is capitulating to the times."
From Slate ● May 12, 2011
Dantzig is capitulating, dreadful penalties exacted, all the heavier as no Stanislaus is to be found in it; and search all the keener rises in the Delta after him.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle
Conde is capitulating to the Austrians; Royal Highness of York, these several weeks, fiercely batters Valenciennes.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
