Look up: succumb


  1. succumb
    [Verb] To give into force or pressure.
    Example: The teacher succumbed to the students' requests to leave the lesson early as they had all worked so hard.

    Found op http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/glossary/

  2. succumb
    [v] - be fatally overwhelmed
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=succumb

  3. Succumb
    Succumb: To lose the will to oppose something or to give up and accept something that you first opposed. In the context of illness, to succumb to an illness is to stop opposing it, to no longer battle it, but to die from it. Succumbing, like passing, has become a euphemism (an inoffensive substitute...
    Found op http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.html?articlekey=19895

  4. Succumb
    Suc·cumb' transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Succumbed ; present participle & verbal noun Succumbing .] [ Latin succumbere ; sub under + cumbere (in comp....
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/S/231

  5. succumb
    To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease. ... Origin: L. Succumbere; sub under + cumbere (in comp), akin to cubare to lie down. See Incumbent, Cubit. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?succumb

  6. Succumb
    • (v. t.) To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/succumb/

  7. succumb
    succumb, succumbing, succumbed 1. To lose one's will to oppose something or to give up and accept something that someone was first opposed to. 2. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; to give up or to give in. 3. Succumbing to, like passing on, has become a euphemi...
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/582/2

  8. succumb
    1) Accept 2) Buckle under 3) Cave 4) Consent 5) Give in 6) Give in (to) 7) Give way 8) Go for 9) Knuckle under 10) Surrender 11) Yield
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/succumb/1

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