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In some senses, succumb is marked as euphemistic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
verb
To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
succumb to temptation
succumb under misfortunes
To give up, or give in.
To die.
succumb to pneumonia
Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed.
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.