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succumb

[suh-kuhm] / səˈkʌm /


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Succumb to his flattery, despite his casual crudeness and arrogance?

From Seattle Times • Mar. 23, 2017

I weighed the options: Succumb to despair, or pick myself up and deal.

From New York Times • Oct. 15, 2010

Succumb to the good fortune of a youth!

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix

But daydreams must end With the red setting sun And, like autumn leaves, Succumb to decay.

From Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer by Isaacson, Lauren Ann

It hath not pleas'd high-thron'd Saturnian Jove To ratify our truce, who both afflicts With labours hard, till either ye shall take Our well-fenc'd city, or yourselves to us Succumb beside your ocean-going ships.

From The Iliad by Derby, Edward George Geoffrey Smith Stanley, Earl of




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