0 present 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.
The intuition is that healthier workers have greater productivity, since workers are more able to work diligently, for longer hours, without succumbing to debilitation.
In the absence of sudden death affected rabbits deteriorate and progressively lose body weight before eventually succumbing to the disease.
Both men are perceived as having little moral fibre, and this is signified by their succumbing to women.
But, how can we make sense of the possibility of the invention of traditions without succumbing to the comprehensive rationalist or hyper-rationalist temptation?
An advantage of large seed size: tolerating rather than succumbing to seed predators.
He chides grammarians for abandoning their mission to describe language and succumbing instead to the lures of linguistic engineering and grammatical prescription.
Hyperactivated spermatozoa are short-lived, succumbing rapidly to metabolic exhaustion.
Or are tribes and tribal culture succumbing to the urbanization and nation-building processes?
