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How to use succumb in a sentence

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Succumb means to yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire. Example: “Thai culture as in many other Asian cultures, is succumbing to the influence of westernization.”

Examples of succumb by meaning

verbTo yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

  • succumb to temptation
  • succumb under misfortunes
  • Thai culture as in many other Asian cultures, is succumbing to the influence of westernization.

verbTo die.

  • succumb to pneumonia
  • Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed.1976 December 25, “Untitled cartoon”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 26, page 5

verbTo 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.2012, Scott M. Garrett, Forever Different, →ISBN
  • She had run away with Chiwi to San Jose when he was a year and half old; only to succumb him to the abuse of his aunt.2014, Gideon C Mekwunye, Tear Drops - Part 2, →ISBN, page 455
  • Known to be genuinely cheerful, every few months an unseen shadow would nevertheless succumb him, delivering a two-week melancholic stew of resentment and depression.2015, David Marlett, Fortunate Son: A Novel of the Greatest Trial in Irish History, →ISBN

More sentences with succumb

  • Their efforts were in vain and he succumbed to his injuries.From the entry in vain
  • Spoiler alert: The main character, Mark, succumbs to an illness at the end.From the entry spoiler alert
  • The batsman succumbed to a snorter of short balls from the bowler and nicked a thin edge to the keeper.From the entry snorter
  • She vowed to give up drinking during the exam period, but eventually succumbed to peer pressure and was out drinking with her friends within a week of the resolution.From the entry peer pressure
  • Without Soviet support surrounding the missile crisis, Cuba's military would have been merely a bonsai army and they would have quickly succumbed to any serious invasion from the west.From the entry bonsai army
  • Rabban Yoḥanan could have succumbed to despair like many at that time.2024, David Golinkin, “Comfort, Oh Comfort My People”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page x. From the entry sacrificial
  • She had long ago succumbed to the bakery section at Waitrose.2014, Judith Thomas, “Patagonia Pilgrims”, in All in the Head: & Other Tales with a Twist, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador…. From the entry bara brith
  • Anxiety is a state of emotional know-nothingness in which the individual succumbs to helplessness.2012, Peter R. Breggin, Psychiatric Drug Withdrawal. From the entry know-nothingness
  • Soros succumbed to acute dubyaphobia: there is no mention of his latest mental illness.2004 May 20, John H. McCloskey, “Re: Why Soros Hates Bush”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet). From the entry Dubyaphobia
  • In each spot, the animal succumbs to a different South Park-ian fate.2001 July 21, Saturday Night (National Post), page 42. From the entry South Park-ian
  • The temptation must be great to “deaccession” some of it, and museums often do succumb.2000 December, Jeanne Schinto, “Obscure Objects of Lapsed Desire”, in The Atlantic. From the entry deaccession
  • Occasionally I succumb to the vibrations in the atmosphere and follow, sheeplike, the movements of the crowd.1981 December 19, Nancy Walker, “Taxi, Shmaxi!”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 12. From the entry sheeplike
  • It had been filtered through porcelain and centrifuged until every last skerrick of life had succumbed.1969, Clive Barry, Fly Jamskoni, London: Faber and Faber […], →ISBN, page 54. From the entry skerrick
  • In the ensuing financial panic, many persons sustained heavy losses, and large numbers of unsound schemes succumbed.1946 September and October, “Speculation Run Riot”, in Railway Magazine, page 269. From the entry unsound
  • Felix (nothing if not modern) had succumbed already to the feeling that youth ruled the roost.1915, John Galsworthy, chapter 16, in The Freelands. From the entry rule the roost
  • Fred Lockman on Beach street succumbed Tuesday to an attack of acute diffused peritonites.1914 January 30, “Valerina Lockmann^([sic])”, in H. D. Meister, editor, The Democratic Expositor, volume XL, number 4, Wauseon, Oh.…. From the entry Valerina
  • Most of the Foundation's best scientists succumbed to some extent to the siren song of the rule of cool.2024 September 8, HarryBlank, “Nothing Happens”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 03 Oct 2024. From the entry siren song
  • Not everyone succumbed to such nostalgia and despondency.2023, Clive Young, “chapter three: From Union to Devolution”, in Unlocking Scots: The Secret Life of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Luath…. From the entry despondency
  • RSA was one of the few fundamental encryption protocols that had not succumbed to Schneier's law in more than thirty years.2022, Andy Greenberg, Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency, unnumbered page. From the entry Schneier's Law
  • Forest has succumbed to chemically sustained silviculture.2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 598. From the entry silviculture
  • The chain stretched, aged, and eventually succumbed to senescence.2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 6, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry senescence
  • Before Trudy succumbed to her injuries from the bomb that destroyed her car, she uttered the words “bread and butter.2011, D. E. Wittkower, Mr. Monk and Philosophy: The Curious Case of the Defective Detective. From the entry bread and butter
  • Don't let her succumb to complete carbophobia.2002 September 18, Paul Chefurka, “Atkins with Calcium?”, in sci.med.nutrition (Usenet). From the entry potatophobia
  • He had slushy ferric salts succumbing to their own deliquescence.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry tetracarbonyl
  • Some clergy succumb to the temptation of being aginners.1988, R. Robert Cueni, What Ministers Can't Learn in Seminary: A Survival Manual for the Parish Ministry. From the entry aginner
  • “I can do my work; I got to.” One more feeble effort and she succumbed, with a faint “Jimminy Crickets!”1908 September, Margaret Mayo, chapter V, in Polly of the Circus, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC, page 53. From the entry jimminy crickets
  • In mock obeisance bow him low And he succumbs your slave: a show Of high respect will undercraft His cunning wit!1901, Charles Richard Panter, Granuaile: A Queen of the West, page 94. From the entry undercraft
  • “This afternoon, our dear Jackson has sadly succumbed to his injuries and passed away,” an update posted to the page said days after the attack.2022 October 26, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson and Sara Smart, “The Waukesha victims included an 8-year-old…. From the entry Jackson
  • These three for me were the holy trinity of Irish writers and it was on that strand that I succumbed to their enchantment.2014, Susan Dorsey Boland, Put Some Mayo on That, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry holy trinity
  • The capital, Nanjing, succumbed in December.2013, David Mayers, FDR's Ambassadors and the Diplomacy of Crisis, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry Tientsin
  • The speed and her heavy pack threatened her balance, but she caught herself before succumbing to an embarrassing nose-first topple to the earth.2013, Lindsay Buroker, Conspiracy: The Emperor's Edge. From the entry nose-first
  • What with Alphonse's lies and Bernard's fantasies, one must assume the relative candor of Hélène and Françoise if Muriel is not to succumb to Marienbadism.1970, Andrew Sarris, Confessions of a cultist: on the cinema, 1955-1969, page 104. From the entry Marienbadism

Meaning of succumb

  1. verb To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
  2. verb To give up, or give in.
  3. verb To die.

Full definition of succumb

Questions about succumb in a sentence

How do you use succumb in a sentence?
Succumb is used as a verb. For example: “Thai culture as in many other Asian cultures, is succumbing to the influence of westernization.”
What is a short sentence with succumb?
“succumb to pneumonia”
What does succumb mean?
Succumb means to yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

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