[V] ~ (to sth) to fail to resist an attack, an illness, a TEMPTATION, etc:
The town succumbed after a short siege. * His career was cut short when he succumbed to cancer. * He finally succumbed to Lucy's charms and agreed to her request. * She succumbed to the temptation of another drink. * They were all offered bribes and some of them succumbed.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for succumb is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is succumb a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, succumb is tagged as verb.
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