succumb

1. (intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.Examples: "succumb to temptation"; "succumb under misfortunes"; "Thai culture as in many other Asian cultures, is succumbing to the influence of westernization."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To give up, or give in.intransitive

3. (intransitive, euphemistic) To die.Examples: "succumb to pneumonia"; "Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed."euphemisticintransitive

4. (transitive) To overwhelm or bring down.Examples: "He has not allowed the burn and his subsequent injury to succumb him, but to make him forever different but also, I think, forever better."; "She had run away with Chiwi to San Jose when he was a year and half old; only to succumb him to the abuse of his aunt."; "Known to be genuinely cheerful, every few months an unseen shadow would nevertheless succumb him, delivering a two-week melancholic stew of resentment and depression."transitive