easy-Speak - Toastmaster Automation!       
   
easy-Speak - Toastmaster Automation!
easy-Speak 

easy-Speak Training


Username:

Password:

 Remember me



I forgot my password

Don't have an account yet?
You can register for FREE


My Communication

     

Need to ask a question?

HelpNeed to ask a question? - or could you help and answer questions?


WOTD  
Word of the Day - for Toastmasters everywhere
Sunday 27th August 2023
Archive | Previous word | Today's word | Next word

succumb (verb) su-KUM



Give in or give way to temptation or pressure; yield; die from something.

Quote:
If you succumb, go for fresh strawberries, fruit salad or, at the outside, a fruit crumble (all without cream, of course!)
Lizzie Webb, Total Health and Fitness. Amazon


Quote:
The show does succumb to that Cirque du Soleil tendency to dress up the acts with a song and a dance when the skill and athleticism require no distraction, and the women are mostly decoration, apart from the duo who juggle tables with their feet.
Lyn Gardner, The Guardian, 21 January 2008. Guardian


Quote:
Then standing in the heat and chaos, listening to the bang of the fireworks, watching the 'guy' succumb to the flames.
Barbara Ellen, The Observer, 4 November 2007. Web Page Name


Quote:
At Auschwitz, he watched his father slowly succumb to dysentery before the SS beat him to within an inch of his life.
Rachel Donadio, The New York Times, 20 January 2008. New York Times


Quote:
That night, as my father’s healthy snores rumbled in the bed next to mine and my grandmother wandered in and out of the bathroom, I considered both the nothingness to which we would all eventually succumb and its very opposite, the backside of Tahnee Welch partly shrouded in a pair of white shorts.

Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 11 July 2007. The New Yorker





Join the Contributors | Suggestions & Comment | Link to us | Grammarian's Print
 

Toastmaster Automation v2.20 - Sponsored by Malcolm Warden   © 2005-21 MalW

Terms and Conditions (Revised 2018-04-23)       Privacy Policy (Revised 2018-04-23 16:00)
The names Toastmasters International and all other Toastmasters International trademarks and copyrights are the sole property of Toastmasters International
This website is developed, supported and financed by Toastmaster members for use in their own clubs with the cooperation of Toastmasters International. It is only available to Toastmasters clubs.