Usually means: Surrenders or yields under pressure.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. capitulates: Merriam-Webster
  2. capitulates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. capitulates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Capitulates, capitulates: Wordnik
  5. capitulates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. capitulates: Wiktionary
  7. capitulates: Dictionary.com
  8. capitulates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. capitulates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. capitulates: Legal dictionary

(Note: See capitulate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (capitulate)

verb:  (intransitive) To surrender; to end all resistance, to give up; to go along with or comply.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters; to enumerate.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To draw up the articles of treaty with; to treat, bargain, parley.
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