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succumb (səˈkʌm Pronunciation for succumb ) 

Definitions

verb

intr often foll by to
  1. to give way in face of the overwhelming force (of) or desire (for)
  2. to be fatally overwhelmed (by disease, old age, etc); die (of)

Derived Forms

sucˈcumber noun

Word Origin

C15: from Latin succumbere to be overcome, from sub- + -cumbere from cubāre to lie down

Synonyms

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= surrender (to), yield (to), submit (to), give in (to), give way (to), go under (to), cave in (to), capitulate (to), knuckle under (to),
= catch, contract, fall victim to, die from, get, develop, pick up, die of, fall ill with, become infected by, come or go down with, cark it from

Translations for 'succumb'

  • British English: succumb If you succumb to temptation or pressure, you do something that you want to do, or that other people want you to do, although you feel it might be wrong. VERBHe would never succumb to pressure.
  • Brazilian Portuguese: sucumbir
  • Chinese: > 屈服向诱惑、压力
  • European Spanish: sucumbir
  • French: succomber
  • German: sich beugen
  • Italian: soccombere
  • Japanese: 負ける
  • Korean: 굴복하다
  • Portuguese: sucumbir
  • Spanish: sucumbir

Example Sentences Including 'succumb'

Even Fulham, the city's latest Premiership recruit, with a ground capacity of just 17,000, refuse to succumb to an inferiority complex.
Glasgow Herald (2001)
I cannot feel my feet, and gradually my legs and my body succumb to the creeping numbness.
Harris, Elizabeth Time of the Wolf
Ideally, the so-called "moderate" Taliban should succumb to the lure of Pakistan and defect to the winning side.
India Today (2001)
Many fear governments may succumb to pressures to nationalize pharmaceutical operations within their borders to protect their own citizens.
canada.com (2004)
She felt the vertiginous pull, as familiar to her as the desire to succumb to momentary madness and to make the leap herself.
Mark Burnell CHAMELEON (2002)
The PM's refusal to succumb to complacency ranks with his most valuable professional virtues.
The Mercury, Sunday Tasmanian (2005)
The craving I'm going on about now which I still succumb to is - the Mars bar habit.
Belfast Telegraph (2005)
Traditional Christian theodicies are still strongly defended in many quarters; faith does not necessarily succumb to pressure.
Arthur Berger & Joyce Berger Reincarnation - Fact or Fable?
rst intelligent man I've known to succumb to an unreasoning appetite for games of chance.
Robin Hobb THE GOLDEN FOOL: Book Two of the Tawny Man (2002)

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