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.
- HOLMES: You're telling me that they kind of succumb to PR pressure?
- 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.
- Mugabe vowed he would not "succumb" to pressure to enter into dialogue with the MDC.
- Perhaps the use of the word "succumb" may be more appropriate in my case and sex workers 'as well.
- Julian Bennett the latest to succumb, which isn't ideal as we only have shuffling or reserve options to cover him.
- There are certain combats in which to be the one to succumb is to claim the honours; -- and that is what women will not learn.
- The family agreed to undergo testing to aid the research and though the names of family members who will succumb is known in the laboratories the family agreed they didn't want to be told.
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