succumbing

Meanings

• verb

  Giving in or yielding to something, such as a force or influence.

• verb

  Dying or passing away, often implying surrender or submission.

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with succumbing
numbing , humming , bumming , plumbing

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Variants

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succumb , succumbed , succumbing , succumbs

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Forms

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succumbed, succumbing, succumbs

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Etymology

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From Old French succumber, from sub- 'under' + comber 'to come together'.

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Trivia

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1. The term 'succumbing' is often used in medical contexts to describe a patient's death or passing away.

2. In the context of computer security, a system is said to have succumbed to an attack when it has been successfully breached or compromised.

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Related Concepts

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1. giving in: The act of yielding or surrendering to something, often implying a loss of control or resistance.

2. submission: The act of yielding or surrendering to the authority or will of another, often implying a loss of power or autonomy.

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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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The term 'succumbing' is often used in literature and poetry to describe a character's surrender or acceptance of a situation, often in the context of death or defeat.

How to Memorize "succumbing"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a person or object yielding or giving in to a force or influence. For example, imagine a wave crashing over a rocky shore, gradually wearing it down until it succumbs.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'succumbing' with the idea of yielding or giving in. For example, think of the phrase 'giving in to temptation' or 'surrendering to defeat'.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Create a mnemonic by associating the word 'succumb' with the phrase 'sometimes under compulsion must I come'. This helps remember the meaning of the word as 'giving in' or 'yielding'.

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