succumb

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *ḱewb- Proto-Italic *kumbō Latin *cumbō Latin succumbere Old French succomberbor. English succumb From Old French succomber, from Latin succumbō.

1. To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

   “succumb to temptation”

   “succumb under misfortunes”

2. To give up, or give in.
3. To die.

   “succumb to pneumonia”

   “Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed.”

4. To overwhelm or bring down.

   “He has not allowed the burn and his subsequent injury to succumb him, but to make him forever different but also, I think, forever better.”

   “She had run away with Chiwi to San Jose when he was a year and half old; only to succumb him to the abuse of his aunt.”