capitulate

capitulate [verb]: surrender.

Example: The Nano project at Singur had to be scrapped when neither side was prepared to capitulate to the other’s demands.

Related words: capitulator [noun]

Notes: A similar-sounding word is recapitulate. To recapitulate (informally, “to recap”) means to summarize and repeat something said earlier

Synonyms: buckle, cede, concede, defer, relent, submit, succumb, surrender, yield

Antonyms: conquer, crush, defend, fight, outwit, quell, rout, surmount, triumph, vanquish

Tags: GRE

Category: Vocabulary words

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