Examples of succumb

• The intuition is that healthier workers have greater productivity, since workers are more able to work diligently, for longer hours, without succumbing to debilitation.

• They even cried and succumbed to hysteria, hitherto seen as a specifically female malady.

• An advantage of large seed size: tolerating rather than succumbing to seed predators.

• Most likely, he had succumbed to his serious illness.

• Instead, brains succumbed to brawn with dreadful results.

• In contemporary controls >90% of neonates succumbed to pulmonary hypoplasia.

• With little access to medical care, many of them succumbed to exhaustion, starvation and disease.

• The church itself, the most characteristic of all medieval institutions, also succumbed to this decline, and in some instances, became a partner of national government.

• When he succumbs to the charms of the ' unknown' woman, she unmasks, then leaves him.

• Cowling has not succumbed, in his advancing years, to any tendency to become accommodating.

• Older people are characterised by the different elements of anti-ageing science as having lost their good looks, succumbed to disease, become overwhelmed by senility, and as surrendering to death.

• She serves to promote consumption, not to partake of it; rather than succumbing to the cap-buying frenzy, she continues to go about "more shabby than ever" (169; ch. 12).

• While this choice may eliminate fear of vertigo, it sometimes leaves the author open to the charge of succumbing to the occasionally dubious authority of her primary and secondary sources.

• 108 societal bonds of house organizations were unable to endure the pressures of political catastrophe, and ultimately the houses succumbed to burdens placed on the broader systems of politicoeconomic organization.

• We were not able to determine whether certain variables protected some children from later harm while other families succumbed to dynamic stressors or lack of resources.