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  • When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it.†  (source)
    succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
  • This civilization had advanced to the Warring States Period before succumbing.†  (source)
    succumbing = consenting reluctantly; or suffering defeat
  • Then, last night, just before I'd succumbed to exhaustion, I'd finally managed to navigate my way through the intranet's labyrinth of firewalls and into the main Oology Division database.†  (source)
    succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
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  • has succumbed irrevocably to the corruptions of his class—and now poses a threat to the very ideals he once espoused.†  (source)
    succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
  • No plagues rain down upon museum employees; Marie-Laure does not succumb to snakebite or tumble into a sewer and break her back.†  (source)
  • She approaches and then sits by her sister's grave, trying hard to fight the emotions as they come to her but succumbing all the same.†  (source)
    succumbing = consenting reluctantly; or suffering defeat
  • Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.†  (source)
    succumbs = consents reluctantly; or suffers defeat
  • But when Achilles hath to fate succumb'd, Then, fearless, with the foremost join the fray: No other Greek shall bear away thy spoils.†  (source)
    succumb'd = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
  • Cynthia, as gorgeous and headstrong as ever, had succumbed to cancer in 2001, drifting off as Louie pressed his face to hers, whispering, "I love you.†  (source)
  • The look of a man who's come to see What Might Have Been is full of both bloodshed and nostalgia; should Owen succumb to his fever, Mr. Morrison looked ready to play the part.†  (source)
  • Almost succumbing to the sudden blackness that threatened to smother him, Mack leaned on the table to keep from passing out or throwing up.†  (source)
    succumbing = consenting reluctantly; or suffering defeat
  • I could see the headline in the Pike Weekly News—LOCAL FARMER SUCCUMBS IN LIVING ROOM.†  (source)
    SUCCUMBS = consents reluctantly; or suffers defeat
  • They had less than a month left before they succumbed to old very old age.†  (source)
    succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
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