ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsSsuccumb
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succumb
Meaning: to stop resisting and yield to force, pressure, or illness
succumb in a sentence
How succumb is used in real sentences:
The rebels refused to succumb despite months of pressure.
Exhausted by the long siege, the defenders eventually succumbed.
“For one wavering moment, she nearly succumbed to his pressure; with the money, she reasoned, she could repair whatever damage Ashdown had caused.”
— from the passage The Refusal at Ashdown
Synonyms for succumb
Other words for succumb — yield, surrender and capitulate — carry the same meaning.
- yield
- surrender
- capitulate
Antonyms of succumb
Words that mean the opposite of succumb:
- resist
- withstand
- prevail
Where it comes from
From Latin succumbere, meaning 'to yield or lie beneath.'
Memory hook
SUCCUMB sounds like 'sink under': to succumb is to give way under pressure.