succumb

/sə'kʌm/

Thân thiện

He finally succumbed to the illness after a long struggle.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Verb

1. be fatally overwhelmed
2. consent reluctantly

Từ đồng nghĩa

• yield
• give in
• knuckle under
• buckle under