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What does succumb mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word succumb? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
  2. (intransitive) To give up, or give in.
  3. (intransitive) To die.
  4. (transitive) To overwhelm or bring down.
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Will, however, did not succumb to what Maria feared, but actually managed the arduous task of keeping his big gob shut.
Most won't succumb to stem rot as quickly as soft-stemmed perennials, but it can happen just the same.
I quickly succumb to the languor and indolence that harks back to a more leisurely era.
When Nora was still a toddler, Woody began to succumb to Huntington's Disease, the hereditary malady that killed his mother.
Mosquitoes, poisonous snakes and tropical diseases such as yellow fever and typhoid caused many to succumb.
No animal is so fleet of foot or so powerful that it will not one day succumb to the jaws of the hyena.

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