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White, between 1867 and 1870, launched various attacks upon these ludicrous gossamers of speech, and particularly upon /enceinte/, /limb/ and /female/, but only /female/ succumbed.†

succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
[10] This use of the word was then relatively new in England, though, according to White, the /Saturday Review/ and the /Spectator/ had already succumbed†
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In 1895 Weber and Fields tried to establish /music-hall/ in New York, but it quickly succumbed to /vaudeville-theatre/, as /variety/ had succumbed to /vaudeville/ before it.†
In 1895 Weber and Fields tried to establish /music-hall/ in New York, but it quickly succumbed to /vaudeville-theatre/, as /variety/ had succumbed to /vaudeville/ before it.†
But before the end the author begins to succumb to precedent, and on page 114 I find [Pg182] paragraph after paragraph of such dull, flyblown pedantry as this: Some Intransitive Verbs are used to link the Subject and some Adjective or Noun.†
As for /crew/, it is archaic English surviving in American, and it was formed, perhaps, by analogy with /knew/, which has succumbed in American to /knowed/.†

succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
/Those-there/, if I observed accurately, is still pronounced more distinctly, but it, too, may succumb to composition in time.†
But when they follow verbs they often succumb, as in "I'll do it /sure/" and "I seen him /recent/."†
And when they modify adjectives they sometimes succumb, too, as in "it was /sure/ hot."†
However, a good many of the vowels of the early days have [Pg237] succumbed to pedagogy.†

succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
He believes that /t/ is gradually succumbing to /d/, and cites "ass bedder" (for "that's better"), "wen juh ged din?"†

succumbing = consenting reluctantly; or suffering defeat
[10] Even Sweet, though he bases his New English Grammar upon the spoken language and thus sets the purists at defiance, quickly succumbs to the labelling mania†

succumbs = consents reluctantly; or suffers defeat
But the event has blasted this prophecy and confidence, for the English, despite their furious reluctance, have succumbed to Webster more than once.†

succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
It is not exaggerating, indeed, to say that wherever the old stock comes into direct and unrestrained conflict with one of these new stocks, it tends to succumb, or, at all events, to give up the battle.†
In /König/ the German diphthong succumbs to a long /o/, and the hard /g/ becomes /k/; the common pronunciation is /Cone-ik/.†

succumbs = consents reluctantly; or suffers defeat
The native names of such rivers as the /James/, the /York/ and the /Charles/ succumbed, but those of the /Potomac/, the /Patapsco/, the /Merrimack/ and the /Penobscot/ survived, and they were gradually reinforced as the country was penetrated.†

succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
But English is the possession of a race that is still pushing in all directions, and wherever that race settles the existing languages tend to succumb.†
The result, in the case of the neo-Celts, is a dialect that stands incomparably above the tight English of the grammarians—a dialect so naïf, so pliant, so expressive, and, adeptly managed, so beautiful that even purists have begun to succumb to it, and it promises to leave lasting marks upon English style.†

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(1) (succumb)
consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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