succumb
IPA: sʌkˈʌm
verb
- (intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
- (intransitive) To give up, or give in.
- (intransitive) To die.
- (transitive) To overwhelm or bring down.
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Examples of "succumb" in Sentences
- Three workers succumb to injury.
- He succumbed to the disease at the age of 42.
- Don't succumb to these 3 common legal issues.
- Eventually the two succumb to the elements and die.
- He succumbed to tetanus 24 days after the accident.
- But they also succumb to the peer pressure in the end.
- Anarchy is a society's potentiality to succumb to anarchism.
- Brusilov became ill and many of the crew succumbed to scurvy.
- In the Christian camp, the leaders began to succumb to the epidemics.
- Dow was the first of the Ingalls siblings to succumb to the ailment in 1941.
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