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succumb

— verb (= yield) consent reluctantly — verb be fatally overwhelmed

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yield die submit surrender pass away give in perish knuckle under give way expire buckle under pass on give up fall demise decease croak comply capitulate bow underlie truckle snuff it sink into roll over ring down the curtain resign relinquish quit pronate pop off pip out pass obey kick the bucket kick in kick join the choir invisible indulge incurvate grant go to meet ones maker go for go give-up the ghost flex fall in exit drop dead drop

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Person Life

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succumb · verb

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Simple sentences

She had chosen to succumb to parental pressure.

Movie subtitles

Don't succumb to the black magic of this devil's spawn!
So what i assume will happen you will perhaps withstand the pressures for three or four weeks, maybe a couple of months and then you will succumb. That's, again, your nature.
Now you will succumb to your own crimes and scheming.
But during that time you must never succumb To buying an extra piece of bread for the table Or a toy for a child.
Well it depends on their resistance, in time of course all will succumb.
Well, I'm sorry, but if I succumb to sympathy.
Do you promise to succumb wholeheartedly to the merriment?
Do not succumb to provocation.
I mean, you don't seem to succumb to the atmosphere.
I don't know, but maybe one could find the inner strength not to succumb.
Weaponry so devastating that all matter will succumb to its power.
They succumb, go under. The Osbornes.
You'll succumb to arthritis angina senile dementia.
I can be your ideal woman, Picard. prim and proper and chaste until I succumb to your charms.
NEITHER EXPECTED NOR BARGAINED FOR. IN JUST A MOMENT, ONE OF THEM WILL SUCCUMB TO AN ILLNESS WORSE THAN ANY VIRUS CAN PRODUCE.
Then we'd eat some greasy, unpalatable food served off of dirty, unwashed plates and after that it would be a moot question whether we'd succumb to ptomaine or pneumonia.
So what i assume will happen you will perhaps withstand the pressures for three or four weeks, maybe a couple of months and then you will succumb.
I'm not a man to succumb to the blandishments of a woman.
Well, I'm sorry, but if I succumb to sympathy. I'd have the whole world on my neck.
It's not the czar's spirit to succumb to low spirits.
This time Mathurin will succumb to the strike of fortune.
You drink and drink, and drink. and then succumb.
You mustn't succumb.
The moment I saw your steamy look, I knew I would succumb.
I can fend off the doubts of the wicked, never shall innocence succumb to them!
Stay in control, or you will succumb too fast.
The two astronauts were immediately transferred to a hospital. Unfortunately they did succumb to heavy radiation exposure and died this afternoon.
Will the man before you not succumb to the burden of this legacy?
The third and final temptation is to succumb to greed.
Not once did I succumb to the mal de mer.
Well, before I succumb to the ravages of age, why don't you tell me what brings you here?
If you should succumb to Possession, the cure shall be to eat of singing insects.
Captain, if I succumb to the collective, I'll pose a security risk.
I urge you to go home and look in the mirror, and pray that your son doesn't succumb to the path of fear.
Don't let me succumb.
Just don't let me succumb, I beg you.
She watched her mother succumb to grief.
I almost did succumb, but then I turbaned up, and I feel a lot better.

News and current affairs

Conversely, the Western Roman Empire did not succumb to another state, but instead to internal decay and swarms of barbarians.
But the US should not succumb to this temptation.
The problem of identity is made even worse by the fact that most Central European nations, where nation-building was retarded by Communism, easily succumb to nationalist sentiments that in turn are misused by some politicians.
Those who have survived conflict require help if they are not to succumb to disease and starvation.
Europeans should not succumb to this temptation, for the move from dependency to equal partnership is not measured by rhetoric.
Europe can either overcome them or succumb to them.
Liberal cycles, the historian Arthur Schlesinger thought, succumb to the corruption of power, conservative cycles to the corruption of money.
But the dynamic of all reform is clinched when even weighty arguments succumb to the urgency of change.
Such reforms can work only if the big member states do not succumb to the temptation to use these mechanisms to bypass or ride roughshod over the interests of the small countries.
Kant's second type is the moral politician, who rejects cynical pragmatism but does not succumb to naive moralising.
We should not become so enthralled by the explanatory power of the behavioral sciences that we succumb to the belief that moral progress is predetermined.
But the electorate did not succumb to wishful thinking.
They should demonstrate to their governments that they will not succumb to divisive ideology.
And without universal access to public investments in human capital, societies will succumb to extreme inequalities of income and wealth.
If Asian countries succumb, global imbalances and all their associated problems will return.
Some believe that we will ultimately find a compromise, some ruse to make the Irish succumb, that gives the EU a treaty.
But this rebalancing, too, has not happened sufficiently, and if the advanced economies succumb to recession, nobody will escape.
As the founder of several for-profit education companies and an adviser to many others, I have watched managers and investors (including my own) succumb to the temptation to place financial targets above academic goals.
Krugman argues that Japan was only the first of the major economies to succumb to chronic deflation, back in the 1990s, and has now been followed by the European Union, China, and most recently Switzerland, with its soaring franc and falling prices.
That would work if it were true that the best way to ensure economic recovery were to leave more money on the table for individuals. But the electorate did not succumb to wishful thinking.

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