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- pronunciation:
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kuhm
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
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intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
succumbs, succumbing, succumbed |
| definition: |
to give in or give way to a fatal illness, superior force, overwhelming desire, or the like; yield.
His sister succumbed to diphtheria that winter.They could hold off the enemy no longer and were forced to succumb.He tried to resist the desserts, but after seeing the tray he succumbed to temptation.- synonyms:
- give way, surrender, yield
- antonyms:
- endure, resist, triumph
- similar words:
- acquiesce, bend, capitulate, give, go down, submit, withdraw
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| related words: |
bend, capitulate, collapse, crack, die, fall, pass, stoop, submit |
adverb + (v.)succumb
easily, eventually, finally, gradually, inevitably, occasionally, quickly, readily, slowly, ultimately
(v.)succumb
+ noun
ailment,
alcohol,
allure,
attraction,
blandishments,
blight,
bombing,
cancer,
charm,
cholera,
cold,
comfort,
convenience,
corruption,
cynicism,
depression,
desire,
despair,
diabetes,
disease,
epidemic,
evil,
extinction,
fad,
fantasy,
fate,
fatigue,
fever,
fit,
frost,
frustration,
fungus,
gravity,
greed,
grief,
guilt,
hopelessness,
hunger,
hypothermia,
illness,
illusion,
impulse,
infection,
instinct,
invasion,
logic,
longing,
lung,
lure,
lust,
madness,
malnutrition,
manipulation,
myth,
nostalgia,
notion,
onslaught,
paranoia,
parasite,
passion,
pitfall,
pneumonia,
poisoning,
prejudice,
pressure,
ravage,
seduction,
self-pity,
sickness,
sin,
siren,
sloth,
spell,
stereotype,
strain,
stroke,
surgeon,
tear,
temptation,
tendency,
terror,
thinking,
trap,
tuberculosis,
tumor,
urge,
vanity,
virus,
weakness,
weariness,
winter,
wound
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The word succumb
contains the following part:
suc-
Latin
prefix
that means under, below
  More about this word part:
The prefix suc-
occurs in Latin loanwords. It is an assimilated form of sub- used before roots beginning with "c," such as "ced, ces, -ceed, -cede, -cess." See sub-.
Example words:
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