succumb

Example Sentences

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Instead of succumbing to paralyzing fear, like any normal person would in a storm like this, she’d been able to figure out the pattern to Nicole’s swimming.

From Literature

Will you grab gold or succumb to brain freeze?

From BBC

“Investors tend to sell first and ask questions later, and Bitcoin is one of the prime asset classes to succumb to investor fear, especially given how much it has run up in recent years.”

From Barron's

He said, however, "it is a reminder that every year New Yorkers succumb to the cold".

From BBC

By 1529, she had died, possibly succumbing to smallpox, a European scourge.

From Los Angeles Times