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capitulation

/kuh-pich-uh-ley-shuhn/US // kəˌpɪtʃ əˈleɪ ʃən //UK // (kəˌpɪtjʊˈleɪʃən) //

投降,屈服,投诚,投降行动

Related Words

yielding屈服,柔顺的,屈服的,柔顺submission提交,递交,提交的文件surrender投降,交出,投诚,缴械投降resignation辞职,辞去职务,辞呈,辞职声明bowing鞠躬,鞠躬行礼,弓箭手,鞠躬礼conceding认输,认输的,承认,认罪giving up放弃,放弃了,弃权,舍弃accedence诉讼,诉讼程序,诉讼权,诉讼费buckling屈曲,折弯,弯曲,弯曲度relenting回心转意,回心转意的,迁延不绝,迁延succumbing屈服,屈服的,屈就,屈服于

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of capitulating.
    • : the document containing the terms of a surrender.
    • : a list of the headings or main divisions of a subject; a summary or enumeration.
    • : Often capitulations. a treaty or agreement by which subjects of one country residing or traveling in another are extended extraterritorial rights or special privileges, especially such a treaty between a European country and the former Ottoman rulers of Turkey.

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
submission提交,递交,提交的文件yielding屈服,柔顺的,屈服的,柔顺bowing鞠躬,鞠躬行礼,弓箭手,鞠躬礼conceding认输,认输的,承认,认罪resignation辞职,辞去职务,辞呈,辞职声明surrender投降,交出,投诚,缴械投降accedence诉讼,诉讼程序,诉讼权,诉讼费buckling屈曲,折弯,弯曲,弯曲度giving up放弃,放弃了,弃权,舍弃relenting回心转意,回心转意的,迁延不绝,迁延succumbing屈服,屈服的,屈就,屈服于

Examples

  • Netanyahu’s response to defeat was not simply to deride the new coalition as a “government of capitulation” but to call his ouster the “greatest election fraud in the history of the country.”

  • Tesla now commands a bigger market valuation than social-media giant Facebook, with the latest jolt to the electric-vehicle maker’s share price coming from the capitulation of a long-time Wall Street bear on Thursday.

  • Like Gandhi after him, Sharpe had taken on the most powerful empire in the world, and achieved an astonishing capitulation.

  • If I showed you the next four quarters of M&A trade, there’s a huge number of capitulation trades, which is a sign of a declining market, not a rising one.

  • Hence, I suspect, the panic, the lockdown, the capitulation.

  • The Barzeh truce sparked outrage from commentators aligned with the opposition, who viewed it as little more than capitulation.

  • U.S. and Israeli hawks are rushing to call the interim nuclear agreement a capitulation and Obama another Chamberlain.

  • But what negotiation can the naysayers cite, in modern times, that has ever been an outright capitulation?

  • A successful end to the current talks, in the eyes of the West, would represent not so much compromise as capitulation.

  • At last the accumulated horrors shook even his firm spirit, and on June 4th a capitulation was agreed on.

  • During the early months of 1797 he commanded a column at Bologna, and was present at the capitulation of Mantua.

  • The capitulation was a matter of half an hour, and by nightfall I followed the duke and his escort into the town.

  • Orders were then given to cease firing, and by one oʼclock the terms of capitulation were being negotiated.

  • But at ten o'clock in the evening a flag of truce arrived offering a capitulation.

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