succumb

Object

• year: The substation of SR origin formerly resided on the right, but had succumbed many years before the station's closure.
• mouse: Mice in the 17 month study treated with mAbs remain clinically healthy almost a year after the untreated mice succumbed to the disease.
• week: Many die before birth, others succumb suddenly weeks or months after birth.

Infinitive complement

• peer: Unfortunately some drinkers don't know when they've had enough, and some succumb to peer pressure to drink stupidly.
• pressure: Sir Digby Jones, director general of the CBI, said the government has succumbed to pressure from the unions.
• stress: Otherwise more and more of us will all succumb to stress related mental health problems over time.
• defeat: By the end, the hero of this story seems to have finally succumbed to defeat.
• fear: Many people succumb to fear and choke up because they have never learned to deal with this verbal intimidation correctly.
• heat: It succumbed to heat stroke on Monday and awaits ministration, and probably a new fan, in a dark corner of a room.

Preposition: under

• weight: The chances are that, no appliances being at hand to assist him, he succumbed under the weight he had to carry.

Modifying Another Word

• finally: He finally succumbed to his illness on 12 December.
• eventually: I tried and tried and eventually succumbed to editing the kernel.
• unfortunately: The outcome depended on Bill Rice who unfortunately succumbed to a straight set defeat.
• inevitably: In reality leadership, having risen above the oppressed class, inevitably succumbs to the pressure of the ruling class.
• ultimately: Diagnosed with Autism at age 2 and having to battle with leukemia until ultimately succumbing to a fatal brain tumor aged 12.
• nearly: Those with bob hats went home freezing those without nearly succumbed to frost bite of the ear lobes.

Preposition: in

• battle: If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle " .
• battle.: If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. back to top IV.