0 past simple and past participle of succumb
1 to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat:
The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.
I felt sure it would only be a matter of time before he succumbed to my charms.
Thousands of cows have succumbed to the disease in the past few months.
People practising coitus interruptus don't seem to have succumbed to all those terrible nervous complaints against which we are so frequently warned by psychiatrists.
His words and deeds defined the bad citizen inversely : one who succumbed to self-interested ambition and subordinated the public good to the personal.
His family and his family's doctor sequester him on the estate not because he has succumbed to disease but because they have succumbed to paranoia.
The old and the new are neatly juxtaposed here, as apprenticeship succumbed to ' modern ' developments (p. 241).
He developed endocarditis on his pulmonary valve 2 weeks later and succumbed shortly after, following a probable pulmonary embolus.
They even cried and succumbed to hysteria, hitherto seen as a specifically female malady.
Twenty-two percent of the patients succumbed during the first attack, and 16% of survivors had a second myocardial infarction.
Unfortunately, however, the next sera in this study were obtained at 90 days, by which time all the dying bats had succumbed.
