All 3 Uses
succumb
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- "Daddy's sick" soon yielded to "Daddy's gone," as Duke succumbed to diabetes at the age of thirty-five.†
Chpt 2. *succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
- They succumbed to thirst, starvation, exposure, and the merciless abuse of the Japanese soldiers, who whipped, beat, and shot those who stumbled or paused to lap at water in some roadside stream.†
Chpt 3.
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt had succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage at Warm Springs, Georgia.†
Chpt 15.
Definitions:
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(1)
(succumb) consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)