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What (who) is Succumb - definition
succumb
v. (D; intr.) to succumb to (to succumb to smb.'s urging; to succumb to a disease)
succumb
(succumbs, succumbing, succumbed)
If you succumb to temptation or pressure, you do something that you want to do, or that other people want you to do, although you feel it might be wrong. (FORMAL)
Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette...
The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure.
= give in
VERB: V to n, V to n
Examples of use of Succumb
1. Twice as likely to succumb in Oxfordshire as in Ohio?
2. The very elderly sometimes succumb to the bug and die.
3. You promise yourself you‘ll never succumb to that desperation.
4. To succumb to this misleading argument, however, is a mistake.
5. The left must never succumb to protectionism, he insisted.