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0 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.
1 to lose the determination to oppose something, or to give up and accept something that you first opposed:
- She succumbed to temptation and had a second helping of ice cream.
2 to lose the determination to oppose something, or to accept defeat:
- succumb to sth The company succumbed to a $41bn bid from its arch rival.

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.