succumbs in English

verb
1
fail to resist (pressure, temptation, or some other negative force).
he has become the latest to succumb to the strain

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1. Eventually... the male succumbs to death.

2. She succumbs after being slipped an ecstasy tablet.

3. One who succumbs to Cowardice is known as a coward.

4. One who succumbs to Cowardice is known as a Coward.

5. He succumbs to the temptation of attending church services at Lowick, where Casaubon cuts him irretrievably.

6. Now, feeling broken hearted and lonely Blue succumbs to the life of call girl.

7. May 2: Senator Joseph McCarthy succumbs to illness exacerbated by alcoholism and dies.

8. Synonyms for Capitulates include surrenders, yields, submits, succumbs, concedes, relents, bows, quits, acquiesces and budges

9. AtIGIE KIECKHEFER, Billiardist, DEAD; Five Times Holder of World's Three-Cushion Championship Succumbs in Chicago

10. He saves Marie's life by giving her his gas mask, but he succumbs to the gas himself.

11. After Joker finally succumbs to his illness and dies, Batman carries his body out of Arkham City.

12. Or it may be that someone dear to us comes close to or even succumbs to death.

13. Thomas Merton also wrote about wars among saints and that "there is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist most easily succumbs: activism and overwork.

14. Indignation runs high when a celebrity professor succumbs to racial profiling, but whole communities are effectively "profiled" for the suspicious combination of being both dark-skinned and poor.

15. The term Bodice ripper refers to a genre within literature and film that involves a heroine who initially dislikes the male character but, over time, succumbs to temptation.