succumb

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

   • succumb to temptation
   • succumb under misfortunes
   • Thai culture as in many other Asian cultures, is succumbing to the influence of westernization.
2. 2

   To give up, or give in.

3. 3

   To die.

   • succumb to pneumonia
   • Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed.
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   1. 4

      To overwhelm or bring down.

      • He has not allowed the burn and his subsequent injury to succumb him, but to make him forever different but also, I think, forever better.
      • She had run away with Chiwi to San Jose when he was a year and half old; only to succumb him to the abuse of his aunt.
      • Known to be genuinely cheerful, every few months an unseen shadow would nevertheless succumb him, delivering a two-week melancholic stew of resentment and depression.

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