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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | yield |
| Type of | pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, go, kick the bucket, pass, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, buy the farm |
Examples of succumb
succumb
It did not succumb to external pressures to become bigger and supposedly better.
From the thenewstribune.com
Wilson was the leading candidate to succumb to championship-induced megalomania.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Luke Burgess is the latest front-rower to succumb to injury, with a knee strain.
From the independent.co.uk
Yet the charms of tropical China are undeniable, and plenty of visitors succumb.
From the online.wsj.com
They stood in the yard of their burning home, watching it succumb to the flames.
From the thenewstribune.com
Do we have to take their bullies and succumb to their demands in bailing'em out?
From the latimes.com
As such, it is not surprising that a few doctors succumb to addictive behaviors.
From the sacbee.com
To have done otherwise would have been to succumb to the hatred Wright espoused.
From the news.enquirer.com
One problem for well-heeled candidates is that they sometimes succumb to hubris.
From the time.com
- Yield: consent reluctantly
- Be fatally overwhelmed
- Succumbs was R.E.M.'s first commercially-available full-length movie. Released in October 1987 by UNI/A&M, it contains video footage shot by R.E.M.'s lead singer Michael Stipe dating back to the mid-1980s, while the band was still recording under the I.R.S. Records label. ...
- To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire; to give up, or give in; to die
- To lose the will to oppose something or to give up and accept something that you first opposed. In the context of illness, to succumb to an illness is to stop opposing it, to no longer battle it, but to die from it. ...
- (V) -to give way to superior force; yield.
