Definition of Succumb

Succumb

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

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Succumb Quotations

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

May we not succumb to thoughts of violence and revenge today, but rather to thoughts of mercy and compassion. We are to love our enemies that they might be returned to their right minds.
Marianne Williamson

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.
Mike Myers

When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.
Rachel Zoe

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
Harriet Martineau

If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
Meg Tilly

Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
J. Irwin Miller

She's not happy about the life she is living but to jump through the hoop would mean to succumb to death.
Kit Williams

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
Jamie Farr

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.
Lech Walesa

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Succumb Translations

succumb in Dutch is bezwijken
succumb in French is affaisser
succumb in German is erliegen
succumb in Italian is soccombere
succumb in Spanish is sucumbir
succumb in Swedish is duka under, digna

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