Definition of "capitulate"

capitulate

/kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present capitulates, present participle capitulating, simple past and past participle capitulated
1. (intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
  Quotations
  The Irish, after holding out a week, capitulated.
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 14, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans
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.
  Quotations
  there capitulates with the king […] to take to wife his daughter Mary
  1661, Peter Heylin, Ecclesia restaurata