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No, unless its Voltage rating is exceeded (if it fails, a capacitor acts like a short). In a series connection, only alternating current (AC) can pass, because it will allow the capacitor to discharge sometime. DC will only charge it, as it will not flow the other way.

This behavior is useful, actually, when there is need to double the voltage in a circuit. Using transistors, a capacitor is charged, and then discharged into a bigger one (while simultaneously also charging the bigger one with the negative phase of AC, for example). Connect a few steps like this into a "ladder", connect the ladder to a transistor and a transformer, add a few diodes to prevent backflow, and you have yourself a flyback transformer - a device used to generate the high voltages needed to light up a TV picture tube.

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