All 3 Uses of
succumb
in
Always Running
- More of my homies from forty years ago have died, including Rene Munoz-Ledo, who wrote a family-produced hook, "Forgiven," about overcoming his gang and drug experiences before succumbing to cancer in 2004.†
Chpt Intr. *succumbing = consenting reluctantly; or suffering defeat
- Although the principal of a local high school, my father failed to succumb to the local chieftains who were linked to the national party which ruled Mexico, as one famous Latin American writer would later say, with a "perfect dictatorship."†
Chpt 1
- Seventeen-year-old John—whose girlfriend was pregnant with his infant daughter—succumbed to a shotgun blast in his living room as his younger brother watched from beneath a bed in an adjacent room.†
Chpt 5succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
Definition:
consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat