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Jointly capitulated (8,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

knuckled under

'jointly capitulated' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are past participle verbs, I cannot see how one could define the other.

This is the entire clue.

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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