succumbing

Verb

succumb (third-person singular simple present succumbs, present participle succumbing, simple past and past participle succumbed or succame)

1. (intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
   • succumb to temptation
2. (intransitive) To give up, or give in.
3. (euphemistic, intransitive) To die.
   • succumb to pneumonia
4. (transitive) 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.2012, Scott M. Garrett, Forever Different, →ISBN