succumb

About 1.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

   succumb to temptation

2. verb To give up, or give in.
3. verb To die.

   succumb to pneumonia

4. verb To overwhelm or bring down.

Similar words

knuckle under give in yield buckle under surrender submit relinquish cede dispose divest

Often followed by

to in and under before at more from as

Word family

succumbed succumbing succumbs