Definition of succumb Succumb
/sʌkʌˈm/ - [sukum] - suc•cumb
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| succumb - be fatally overwhelmed | ||
| yield | ||
| pull round, pull through, make it, come through, survive continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" | ||
| buy the farm, perish, kick the bucket, give-up the ghost, snuff it, drop dead, decease, cash in one's chips, pop off, pass away, expire, exit, croak, conk, die, choke, pass, go leave quickly | ||
| succumb - consent reluctantly | ||
| yield, give in, knuckle under, buckle under | ||
| consent, go for, accept tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" | ||
| defer, give in, accede, bow, submit take on duties or office; "accede to the throne" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- succumb (v. t.)
To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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succumb
To stop to oppose or resist.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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succumb
suk-kum′, v.i. to lie down under: to sink under: to yield, to submit, to die. [L. sub, under, cumbĕre, to lie down.]
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🔤- succumb, verb, present, 1st person singular of succumb (infinitive).
- succumb, verb (infinitive).
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