Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in. See Synonyms at yield.
- v. To die.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To sink or give way under pressure or superior force; be defeated; yield; submit; hence, to die.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
- v. intransitive To give up, or give in.
- v. intransitive To die.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly
WordNet 3.0
- v. be fatally overwhelmed
- v. consent reluctantly
Etymologies
- From Old French succomber, from Latin succumbere. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English succomben, to bring down, from Old French succomber, from Latin succumbere, to lie under, yield : sub-, sub- + -cumbere, to lie down (as in accumbere, to lie down). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The family agreed to undergo testing to aid the research and though the names of family members who will succumb is known in the laboratories the family agreed they didn't want to be told.”
“There are certain combats in which to be the one to succumb is to claim the honours; -- and that is what women will not learn.”
“Julian Bennett the latest to succumb, which isn't ideal as we only have shuffling or reserve options to cover him.”
“HOLMES: You're telling me that they kind of succumb to PR pressure?”
“Perhaps the use of the word "succumb" may be more appropriate in my case and sex workers 'as well.”
“Mugabe vowed he would not "succumb" to pressure to enter into dialogue with the MDC.”
“Nganunu told conference participants this week that if nothing was done to secure their personal safety and "psychological security", judges would "succumb" to the threats and fail to hand down proper sentences to defendants in accordance with the law.”
“On Monday evening, soon after their arrival here, President Asif Ali Zardari told the two US officials that Pakistan was "fighting for its survival" but would not "succumb" to the militants.”
“succumb" to pressure to enter into dialogue with them.”
“succumb" to the militants, President Asif Ali Zardari told top US officials here Tuesday.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘succumb’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2046 more...
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George Owell's works
pseudonym, Trotsky, Troskyist, apparatchik, purge, ostensible, gullibility, gullible, succumb, enamored, dystopia, nuzzle and 5 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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intueri's Words
inveigle, dolorous, archly, feckless, resplendent, concatenation, peripatetic, delightful, cookie, fey, ephemeral, effervescent and 347 more...
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Verecund, flivver, etc
Just some words I happen to enjoy. Some thread-worn, some not.
yegg, yob, verecund, amatory, fermata, threepenny, gruntled, flivver, gamboge, decolletage, ordure, nudnik and 173 more...
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1100 words you need to know
GRE words
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 288 more...
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Neww
specious, disdainfully, vehemently, in lieu of, dismissive, perpetual, preposterous, impasse, fathom, conversely, repugnant, clogged and 142 more...
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apjoseph's words
insurmountable, ubiquitous, unequivocal, incumbent, asinine, amenable, sycophants, precarious, malevolent, gregarious, raison detra, nefarious and 200 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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gerwitz's Words
erudite, autodidactic, callipygian, ouroboros, zounds, fie, wabi, sabi, gedankenexperiment, zeitgeist, eliminativism, aether and 157 more...
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Ny New Words
From Barron Wordlist the New Words
lap, lank, languor, languish, lancet, lance, lampoon, larceny, larder, largess, lascivious, latitude and 120 more...
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NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
Tweets
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Kristianto2010 When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.
Dec 21, 2010
sonofgroucho If you can't beat 'um, succumb! Oct 5, 2007