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verb
- 1. fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force: "we cannot merely give up and succumb to despair" Similar Opposite
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SUCCUMB definition: 1. to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat: 2. to die or suffer badly from…. Learn more.
1. : to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire. succumb to temptation. 2. : to be brought to an end (such as death) by the effect of destructive or disruptive forces. Did you know?
to lose the determination to oppose something, or to give up and accept something that you first opposed: She succumbed to temptation and had a second helping of ice cream. If you succumb to an illness, you die from it. (Definition of succumb from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) succumb | Business English.
Use the verb succumb to say that someone yields to something they've tried to fight off, such as despair, temptation, disease or injury.
Succumb definition: to give way to superior force; yield. See examples of SUCCUMB used in a sentence.
If you succumb to temptation or pressure, you do something that you want to do, or that other people want you to do, although you feel it might be wrong.
1. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in. See Synonyms at yield. 2. To die, especially from a disease or injury. [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 ).]
