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verb (used without object)
1.
to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
2.
to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die.
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Word Origin & History
succumb
c.1489, from M.Fr. succomber, from L. succumbere "submit, sink down, lie under," from sub "down" + -cumbere "take a reclining position," related to cubare "lie down" (see cubicle). Originally transitive; sense of "sink under pressure" is first recorded 1604.
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