0 past simple and past participle of succumb --
1 to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat: --
Thousands of cows have succumbed to the disease in the past few months.
I felt sure it would only be a matter of time before he succumbed to my charms.
I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.
The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
These larvae eventually succumbed only during periods of more prolonged arrested transpiration.
In contemporary controls >90% of neonates succumbed to pulmonary hypoplasia.
Instead, brains succumbed to brawn with dreadful results.
Most likely, he had succumbed to his serious illness.
This social order flourished for more than a thousand years but eventually succumbed to foreign invasion and the imposition of colonial rule.
These stories, which provided identity, gradually faded as memories succumbed to the inexorable destruction caused by illness.
No rabies virus was isolated from the saliva of animals that succumbed to the disease, nor from the control animals.
Unfortunately, however, the next sera in this study were obtained at 90 days, by which time all the dying bats had succumbed.
