succumbed

Meanings

• verb

  give in or yield to a force or to a person's demands

• verb

  die or pass away, often implying defeat or submission

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Rhymes

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tumbled , jumbled , crumbled , grumbled

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Variants

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succumb , succumbed , succumbing , succumbs

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Forms

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succumbed (past tense and past participle of succumb), succumbs (present third person singular of succumb), succumbing (present participle of succumb)

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Etymology

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From Old French succumber, from sub- 'under' + comber 'throng, press, cover'.

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Trivia

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1. Succumbed is an antonym of the word 'resist'

2. The term 'succumb' is also used in medicine to describe a patient who has died from a disease or an illness.

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Related Concepts

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1. surrender: The act of giving up or yielding to an enemy or an opposing force.

2. defeat: The action or fact of being defeated, especially in a battle or a competition.

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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, succumbed is often used to describe a character who has given in to temptation or defeat. In art, it can be depicted as a visual representation of surrender or defeat.

How to Memorize "succumbed"

1. visualize
   

   - Imagine a person or an object being overwhelmed and yielding to a force or a demand.

2. associate
   

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

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'SuCCUMBed' to remember the meaning of succumb: S - Surrender, U - Under, C - Cover, C - Crumble, U - Under, M - Must, B - Be, E - End.

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