succumb
/sə'kʌm/
Definition
- Intransitive Verb:
- To yield to a superior force or overwhelming pressure: To stop resisting something overpowering, such as an illness, an opponent, or a strong influence.
- To die from the effect of a disease or injury: A formal or literary way to say someone has died, especially after a period of illness or struggle.
Examples of Usage
- Intransitive Verb:
- After a long battle with the illness, he finally succumbed.
- The small company could not compete and succumbed to pressure from its larger rivals.
- She tried to diet but succumbed to the temptation of the chocolate cake.
Advanced Usage
- "succumb to pressure": To finally agree to or do something because others are forcing you to.
- The government succumbed to pressure from the public and changed the law.
- "succumb to one's injuries": A formal phrase meaning to die from wounds.
- The driver succumbed to his injuries three days after the accident.
Variants and Related Words
- Succumbing (present participle/gerund): The act of yielding or dying in this manner.
- Succumbing to fatigue, she fell asleep at her desk.
- Succumbed (simple past and past participle form).
Synonyms
- Yield: To give way to arguments, demands, or pressure.
- Submit: To accept or yield to a superior force or to the authority or will of another person.
- Give in: To cease opposition or resistance; to yield.
- Capituate: To cease to resist an opponent or an unwelcome demand; to surrender.
Related Phrases
- "Succumb to despair": To become completely overcome by hopelessness.
- After losing his job and his home, he succumbed to despair.
- "Succumb to sleep": A literary way to say to fall asleep, often implying it was irresistible.
- Exhausted from the journey, he succumbed to sleep.
Verb
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be fatally overwhelmed
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consent reluctantly
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