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verb
- 1. fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force: "we cannot merely give up and succumb to despair" Similar Opposite
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SUCCUMB definition: 1. to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat: 2. to die or suffer badly from…. Learn more.
1. : to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire. succumb to temptation. 2. : to be brought to an end (such as death) by the effect of destructive or disruptive forces. Did you know?
SUCCUMB meaning: 1. to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat: 2. to die or suffer badly from…. Learn more.
Definition of succumb verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Succumb definition: to give way to superior force; yield. See examples of SUCCUMB used in a sentence.
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.
SUCCUMB definition: 1. to not be able to stop yourself doing something: 2. to die or suffer badly from an illness. Learn more.
1. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in. See Synonyms at yield. 2. To die, especially from a disease or injury. [Middle English succomben, to bring down, from Old French succomber, from Latin succumbere, to lie under, yield : sub-, sub- + -cumbere, to lie down (as in accumbere, to lie down ).]
Use the verb succumb to say that someone yields to something they've tried to fight off, such as despair, temptation, disease or injury.
verb. /səˈkʌm/. [intransitive] Verb Forms. to not be able to fight an attack, an illness, a temptation, etc. The town succumbed after a short siege. They were all offered bribes and some of them succumbed. succumb to something His career was cut short when he succumbed to cancer.
