succumb

UK /səˈkʌm/ US /səˈkʌm/
verb 4

Definitions

verb

1

To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

succumb to temptation

succumb under misfortunes

2

To give up, or give in.

3

To die.

succumb to pneumonia

Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed.

4

To overwhelm or bring down.

He has not allowed the burn and his subsequent injury to succumb him, but to make him forever different but also, I think, forever better.

She had run away with Chiwi to San Jose when he was a year and half old; only to succumb him to the abuse of his aunt.

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