succumb
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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, suk-kum′, v.i. to lie down under: to sink under: to yield, to submit, to die.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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
Succumb to the good fortune of a youth!
From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 1–7
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