Capitulation
[kəpɪtjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)n]
Definition
(noun.) the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); 'they were protected until the capitulation of the fort'.
(noun.) a summary that enumerates the main parts of a topic.
(noun.) a document containing the terms of surrender.
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Definition
(n.) A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
(n.) The act of capitulating or surrendering to an emeny upon stipulated terms.
(n.) The instrument containing the terms of an agreement or surrender.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Surrender (by treaty).
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Examples
- Having formed his troop into line once more, he marched us straight on the farm, which, on seeing our force, surrendered without capitulation. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That day they arranged together the preliminaries of the treaty of capitulation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Turkey had followed with a capitulation at the end of October, and Austro-Hungary on November 4th. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- SIR:--Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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