succumb : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: succumb	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for succumb
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
succumb v consent reluctantly [syn: yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under] be fatally overwhelmed Synonym(s): succumb, yield Antonym(s): come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Succumb \Succumb"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Succumbed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Succumbing}.] [L. succumbere; sub under + cumbere (in comp.), akin to cubare to lie down. See {Incumbent}, {Cubit}.] To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb* under calamities; to succumb to disease.