Both Uses
succumb
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
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- The apparently uninjured people who had died so mysteriously in the first few hours or days had succumbed in this first stage.†
Chpt 4 *succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
- He succumbed to the Japanese baseball mania.†
Chpt 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(succumb) consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)