Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - succumb
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Succumb
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
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1.
intransitive verb Etymology: French & Latin; French succomber, from Latin ~ere, from sub- + -cumbere to lie down; akin to Latin cubare to lie Date: 1604 1. to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire ~ to temptation 2. to be brought to an end (as death) by the effect of destructive or disruptive forces Synonyms: see yield ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.intr. (usu. foll. by to) 1 be forced to give way; be overcome (succumbed to temptation). 2 be overcome by death (succumbed to his injuries). Etymology: ME f. OF succomber or L succumbere (as SUB-, cumbere lie) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. не выдержать, не устоять, уступить to succumb to superior force —- не устоять перед превосходящей силой to succumb to temptation —- поддаться искушению to succumb to grief —- согнуться под гнетом горя 2. (to) погибнуть, умереть to succumb to cancer —- умереть от рака the climbers would have to face difficulties to which many had succumbed before —- этим альпинистам придется встретиться с трудностями, погубившими многих из их предшественников ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) поддаться, уступить (to); to succumb to temptation - поддаться искушению 2) стать жертвой (чего-л.), умереть (to - от чего-л.); to succumb to pneumonia - умереть от воспаления легких ...Англо-русский словарь
6.
~ v formal 1 to stop opposing someone or something that is stronger than you, and allow them to take control (After an intense artillery bombardment the town finally succumbed. | succumb to temptation) (Gina finally succumbed to temptation and had some ice cream.) 2 if you succumb to an illness you become very ill or die of it ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1489, from M.Fr. succomber, from L. succumbere "submit, sink down, lie under," from sub "down" + -cumbere "take a reclining position," related to cubare "lie down." Originally transitive; sense of "sink under pressure" is first recorded 1604. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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