[səˈkʌm], (Verb)

Definitions:
- fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force
(e.g: we cannot merely give up and succumb to despair)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 15th century (in the sense ‘bring low, overwhelm’): from Old French succomber or Latin succumbere, from sub- ‘under’ + a verb related to cubare ‘to lie’