Give in or give way to temptation or pressure; yield; die from something.
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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.
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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.
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Then standing in the heat and chaos, listening to the bang of the fireworks, watching the 'guy' succumb to the flames. |
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At Auschwitz, he watched his father slowly succumb to dysentery before the SS beat him to within an inch of his life. |
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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