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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in. See Synonyms at yield.
  2. v. To die.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To sink or give way under pressure or superior force; be defeated; yield; submit; hence, to die.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
  2. v. intransitive To give up, or give in.
  3. v. intransitive To die.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. be fatally overwhelmed
  2. v. consent reluctantly

Etymologies

  1. From Old French succomber, from Latin succumbere. (Wiktionary)
  2. 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)

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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

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