succumb

Meanings

• verb

  give in or yield to a power or influence

  - "After days of fighting the disease, he finally succumbed."
  - "The city succumbed to the invading army."
  - "She couldn't succumb to the temptation of the dessert."

• verb

  die or pass away

  - "He succumbed to his injuries."
  - "Many people succumb to old age."
  - "The plant succumbed to the frost."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with succumb
plumb , tumb , crumb , jumb , lumb , gumb

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Variants

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succumb , succumbed , succumbing , succumbs

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Etymology

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From Middle English succumen, from Old French succomber, from sub- 'under' + comber 'to come together', from com 'together' + ber 'to bear'.

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Trivia

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1. Succumb is a 13-letter word.

2. The word succumb appears in the King James Version of the Bible.

3. In chess, a piece is said to succumb when it is captured or checkmated.

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Related Concepts

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1. yield: A term closely related to succumb, meaning to surrender control or give in to someone or something.

2. surrender: A term closely related to succumb, meaning to give up control or possession of something to someone else.

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Quotes

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1. Last spring, the Knight Ridder chain "succumbed" to pressure from its largest private investor and sold off its entire lineup of 32 papers to the McClatchy Co. for more than $4 billion.

   - Eric Klinenberg,{it}Mother Jones{/it},March/April 2007

2. Lepanto occupies a curious military fault line between ancient and modern. It was fought with galleys almost identical to those that had clashed in this same gulf sixteen centuries before, when the ships of Antony and Cleopatra "succumbed" to those of Octavian at the Battle of Actium.

   - Colin Thubron,{it}New York Times Book Review{/it},9 Apr. 2009

3. Yet after Paul died in 1978 and his successor John Paul I "succumbed" to a heart attack only 34 days into his papacy, Wojyla was so oblivious to his impending fate that he spent the first day of the new papal conclave nonchalantly browsing through a quarterly review of Marxist theory.

   - David Van Biema,{it}Time{/it},11 Apr. 2005

4. Interviews with cadets, police officers and investigators trying to crack down on crime inside Mexico City's 80,000-officer force revealed that even the most earnest cops often "succumb" to the temptations that are both plentiful and low risk.

   - Alan Zarembo,{it}Newsweek{/it},4 Dec. 2000

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Culture

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In literature, succumb is often used to describe a character's defeat or surrender, either to an external force or to an inner desire. In art, there are several depictions of people succumbing to various influences, such as temptation, illness, or death.

How to Memorize "succumb"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a person or object giving in or yielding to an external force. Visualize the act of submission or defeat.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word succumb with the idea of giving in or yielding to something.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic using the phrase 'Succumb to the Summit' to help remember the meaning of the word.

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