Associations to the word «Succumb»

Wiktionary

SUCCUMB, verb. (intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
SUCCUMB, verb. (intransitive) To give up, or give in.
SUCCUMB, verb. (intransitive) To die.

Dictionary definition

SUCCUMB, verb. Consent reluctantly.
SUCCUMB, verb. Be fatally overwhelmed.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne