Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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capitulate

UK /kəˈpɪ.tjʊ.leɪt/ · US /kəˈpɪt͡ʃ.(j)ʊ.leɪt/ verb, adjective

Forms capitulates capitulating capitulated

  1. verb (intransitive, originally only in military setting) To surrender on stipulated terms, end all resistance, give up, go along with or comply. “He argued and hollered for so long that I finally capitulated just to make him stop.”
  2. verb (ambitransitive, obsolete) To draw up in chapters, heads or articles; to enumerate, specify.
  3. verb (transitive, obsolete) To draw up articles of agreement with; to propose terms, treat, bargain, parley.
  4. verb (transitive, obsolete) To make conditions, stipulate, agree, formulate, conclude (upon something).
  5. adjective Capitulated: agreed upon, convened, settled on, stipulated.
  6. adjective Reduced to heads, laid down under a certain number of heads or items.
  7. adjective (botany) Having or forming a capitulum.

Synonyms

wave the white flag see Thesaurus:surrender

Antonyms

beat bring down convince chew up eat someone for breakfast eat someone's lunch flog humble kick ass malavogue murdelize outfox

Etymology

The adjective is first attested in 1528, the verb in 1537; borrowed from Medieval Latin capitulātus perfect passive participle of Medieval Latin capitulō (“(originally; of a book, text) to draw up under distinct headings; (from the 15ᵗʰ c.) to bargain, parley, convene”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from capitulum (“heading, chapter, title”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), diminutive of caput (“head”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kap-. Common participial usage of the adjective up until Early Modern English.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree. [Obs.]
  2. verb To surrender on terms agreed upon (usually, drawn up under several heads); as, an army or a garrison capitulates.
  3. verb To surrender or transfer, as an army or a fortress, on certain conditions. [R.]

Etymology [LL. capitulatus, p. p. of capitulare to capitulate: cf. F. capituler. See Capitular, n.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “capitulate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details