All 4 Uses of
succumb
in
The War of the Worlds
- In the end the red weed succumbed almost as quickly as it had spread.†
Chpt 2.6 *
- Now by the action of natural selection, all terrestrial plants have acquired a resisting power against bacterial diseases—they never succumb without a severe struggle, but the red weed rotted like a thing already dead.†
Chpt 2.6
- And I succumbed to his conviction.†
Chpt 2.7
- But by virtue of this natural selection of our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many—those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance—our living frames are altogether immune.†
Chpt 2.8
Definition:
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(succumb) consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat