Crossword clues for succumb
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Succumb \Suc*cumb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Succumbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Succumbing.] [L. succumbere; sub under + cumbere (in comp.), akin to cubare to lie down. See Incumbent, Cubit.] To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Old French succomber "succumb, die, lose one's (legal) case," and directly from Latin succumbere "submit, surrender, yield, be overcome; sink down; lie under; cohabit with," from sub "down" (see sub-) + -cumbere "take a reclining position," related to cubare "lie down" (see cubicle). Originally transitive; sense of "sink under pressure" is first recorded c.1600. As a euphemism for "to die," from 1849. Related: Succumbed; succumbing.
Wiktionary
vb. (lb en intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
WordNet
v. consent reluctantly [syn: yield, give in, knuckle under, buckle under]
Usage examples of "succumb".
I have to say, that of all the experts who examine evidence, the ballistics men are the most liable to succumb to a psychologically-induced negligence.
I was so hungry and thirsty that, towards noon, I nearly succumbed very suddenly to the temptation offered by the bason of congealed porage and the jug of cloudy water.
Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite.
He had hoped she would assume he had succumbed again to methamphetamine hydrochloride and was sparing her the agony of his descent back into the hell of chemical dependence.
I succumbed to his ministrations, exploring his body willingly as he touched mine.
In raising and crooking his arm to imitate the dog, the chevalier exposed his hand to his cunning neighbor, who wanted to see if he had Mistigris or the trump,--a first wile to which he succumbed.
Ray did not succumb to the paralytic seizure occasioned by the twofold shock which she had experienced.
Mr Peter Dunston, would succumb to the advances of a man who had nothing whatsoever to recommend him to one so notoriously picksome as she was?
He had feared that the entire group led by Captain Frea had succumbed to the direwolves, but Syrilla and Baran had managed to escape, had met up with the toilers and had arrived at camp with them-along with Baalzeb, Uriah, Pollo and Shireen.
Presley climbed to the summit of one of the hills--the highest-- that rose out of the canyon, from the crest of which he could see for thirty, fifty, sixty miles down the valley, and, filling his pipe, smoked lazily for upwards of an hour, his head empty of thought, allowing himself to succumb to a pleasant, gentle inanition, a little drowsy comfortable in his place, prone upon the ground, warmed just enough by such sunlight as filtered through the live-oaks, soothed by the good tobacco and the prolonged murmur of the spring and creek.
Others had been resuscitated and stabilized, only to succumb to secondary infections that swiftly developed into toxic shock.
She had been admitted with two stab wounds to the lower abdomen four days ago and had succumbed to a staphylococcus infection in the early hours of the morning.
How are we to account for the wholesale transvaluation of values that came after the Civil War, the transfer of ire from the Old Adam to the happy rascal across the street, the sinister rise of a new Inquisition in the midst of a growing luxury that even the Puritans themselves succumbed to?
Pug stood, uncramping legs that had succumbed to the cold stones beneath the straw while he had meditated upon his boyhood.
At this time, Bishop Mackensie and one of his missionaries had already succumbed to the unhealthfulness of the climate, and on the 27th of April, Mrs.