succumb

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

   succumb to temptation

2. 2
   verb

   To die.

   succumb to pneumonia

3. 3
   verb

   To overwhelm or bring down.

   He has not allowed the burn and his subsequent injury to succumb him, but to make him forever different but also, I think, forever better.

4. 4
   verb

   consent reluctantly

5. 5
   verb

   be fatally overwhelmed

6. 6
   verb

   To give up, or give in.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- Proto-Italic *kumbō Latin *cumbō Latin succumbere Old French succomberbor. English succumb From Old French succomber, from Latin succumbō.