succumb Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb consent reluctantly
    give in; knuckle under; yield; buckle under.
  2. verb be fatally overwhelmed
    yield.

WordNet

Suc*cumb" transitive verb
Etymology
L. succumbere; sub under + cumbere (in comp.), akin to cubare to lie down. See Incumbent, Cubit.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Succumbed ; present participle & verbal noun Succumbing
Definitions
  1. To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

Webster 1913