Usually means: Yield under pressure or force.
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  1. succumb: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. succumb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. succumb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. succumb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. succumb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Succumb, succumb: Wordnik
  7. succumb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. succumb: Wiktionary
  9. succumb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. succumb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. succumb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. succumb: Dictionary.com
  13. succumb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. succumb: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Succumb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. succumb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. succumb: Rhymezone
  18. succumb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. succumb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. succumb: Free Dictionary
  21. succumb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. succumb: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
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  1. succumb: Legal dictionary

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  1. succumb: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Succumb: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  3. Succumb: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  1. succumb: Idioms

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  1. succumb: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To give up, or give in.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To die.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To overwhelm or bring down.

Similar:
knuckle under, buckle under, give in, yield, subcomb, surrender, submit, compel, break down, capitulate, more...

Opposite:
prevail, triumph, conquer

Types:
give in, give up, capitulate, defeat, lose, fail, more...

Phrases:
succumb to gravity, succumb to temptation, succumb to the call of the wilde, succumb to, opposite of succumb, more...

Adjectives:
many, last, few, weak, first, latter, young, populous, intemperate, strongest, worst

Colors:
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Similar:
knuckle under, buckle under, give in, yield, subcomb, surrender, submit, compel, break down, capitulate, more...

Opposite:
prevail, triumph, conquer

Types:
give in, give up, capitulate, defeat, lose, fail, more...

Phrases:
succumb to gravity, succumb to temptation, succumb to the call of the wilde, succumb to, opposite of succumb, not succumb, succumb to a snack attack, to succumb to, succumb to him, succumb conquer lose, more...

Adjectives:
many, last, few, weak, first, latter, young, populous, intemperate, strongest, worst

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark red,     maroon,     burgundy,     charcoal,     olive,     brown,     midnight blue,     forest green



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