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succumb definition

suc·cumb (sə kum′)

intransitive verb

  1. to give way (to); yield; submit to succumb to persuasion
  2. to die to succumb to a plague

Etymology: L succumbere < sub-, sub- + cumbere, nasalized form of cubare, to lie: see cube

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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