succumb
/səˈkʌm/ verb C2- 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
- To overwhelm or bring down.
He/she/it succumbs · Past succumbed · Past participle succumbed · -ing form succumbing
Verb forms
- Base form
- succumb
- He/she/it
- succumbs
- Past
- succumbed
- Past participle
- succumbed
- -ing form
- succumbing
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Here Ruby Gillis had succumbed to hysterics, and was left to recover from them as best she might, while Jane and Diana flew through the Haunted Wood and across the brook to Green Gables.
The doctor analyzed the symptoms of the malady to which the prisoner had succumbed, and declared that he was dead.
Without the vital economic lifeblood of passing tourists, previously vibrant main streets languished and ultimately succumbed to a quiet commercial obsolescence.
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