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capitulate

(v): surrender under agreed conditions
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about 1 year ago seanmeade said:

I always assumed it meant something like 'to bow one's head' or 'to submit to someone else's head-ship', but it comes from 'to draw up terms or chapters' and 'chapters' comes from 'head' (like the heads of sections).

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