Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who capitulates.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who capitulates.
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- noun A person who
capitulates
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Examples
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I'd had my slice of Humble for the day, better leave some cake for the next capitulator.
Brocante / Antiques 2010
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Clinton the great "negotiator" to meet with Obama the great capitulator.
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I'd had my slice of Humble for the day, better leave some cake for the next capitulator.
Brocante / Antiques 2010
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She's not a leader, she's a capitulator pure and simple.
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She's not a fighter -- she's a capitulator who shadowboxes.
Bill Clinton: Media Acted Like Hillary Was "Just Making Up All This Stuff" On Bosnia 2009
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So we can only gather that anyone who is trying to tell you that the public option is unpopular, controversial, fringe or out-of-touch is either lying, bought off by the healthcare lobby, a spineless capitulator, or all three.
Bob Cesca: "My Face Was Ripped Off" and Other Arguments for a Public Option 2009
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As far as my own “default capitulation to our leaders and mindless flagwaving” - I am hardly a default capitulator or a mindless flag waver.
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However, when Mapai-rival, Revisionist leader and fascist-capitulator, Vlad Jabotinsky learned of these negotiations with the Arabs, he demanded, in every Yiddish daily across the European continent, that Arlosoroff be executed as a traitor to his people, insisting that all of Palestine shall belong to the Jews, and the Jews alone.
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Anderson the Southerner, in whom he hoped to find a good capitulator.
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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People came from all over the country who had heard of Cornwallis and his wonderful genius as a capitulator.
Comic History of the United States Bill Nye 1873
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