All 3 Uses of
succumb
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Still the plain straightforward question why a child of normally healthy parents and seemingly a healthy child and properly looked after succumbs unaccountably in early childhood (though other children of the same marriage do not) must certainly, in the poet's words, give us pause.†
Chpt 14succumbs = consents reluctantly; or suffers defeat
- Doctor Finucane pronounced life extinct when I succumbed to the disease from natural causes.†
Chpt 15 *succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
- The pair parted company and Stephen rejoined Mr Bloom who, with his practised eye, was not without perceiving that he had succumbed to the blandiloquence of the other parasite.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat