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He did succumb to rages, moments of blind anger when all he wanted was to hurt someone.† (source)
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McCunn considered leaving the security of his camp and setting out on foot for Fort Yukon but concluded he wasn't strong enough, that he would succumb to exhaustion and the cold long before he got there.† (source)
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When I watched her succumb again and again to addiction, I hated her and wished sometimes that she would take enough narcotics to rid me and Lindsay of her for good.† (source)
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When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it.† (source)succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
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This civilization had advanced to the Warring States Period before succumbing.† (source)succumbing = consenting reluctantly; or suffering defeat
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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
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No plagues rain down upon museum employees; Marie-Laure does not succumb to snakebite or tumble into a sewer and break her back.† (source)
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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
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Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.† (source)succumbs = consents reluctantly; or suffers defeat
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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I could see the headline in the Pike Weekly News—LOCAL FARMER SUCCUMBS IN LIVING ROOM.† (source)SUCCUMBS = consents reluctantly; or suffers defeat
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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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