succumb

[Suc*cumbĀ·]

Use the verb succumb to say that someone yields to something they've tried to fight off, such as despair, temptation, disease or injury.

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To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

Verb
consent reluctantly

Verb
be fatally overwhelmed


v. t.
To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.


Succumb

Suc*cumb" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Succumbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Succumbing.] [L. succumbere; sub under + cumbere (in comp.), akin to cubare to lie down. See Incumbent, Cubit.] To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

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Usage Examples

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

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