| 词汇 | succumb |
| 释义 | succumb verb[ I ] formaluk /səˈkʌm/ us /səˈkʌm/ C2 to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat: 屈从，屈服；放弃抵抗；承认失败 The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.在遭受了两个多月的猛烈炮火轰击后，小镇最终在上星期放弃了抵抗。 I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.我还是没顶住诱惑，吃了一块奶酪蛋糕。 I felt sure it would only be a matter of time before he succumbed to my charms.我确信他为我的魅力所倾倒只不过是个时间问题。 C2 to die or suffer badly from an illness: 病死;生病;受病痛折磨 Thousands of cows have succumbed to the disease in the past few months.过去几个月里，几千头奶牛都得了这种病。 to stop living dieMy dog died last week. die a natural/violent deathShe dies a natural death at home, surrounded by loved ones. pass awayHe passed away peacefully in hospital. pass onI'm sorry to hear that your grandfather has passed on. passUSMy father passed last year. Losing and being defeated admit admit defeatphrase battering chase chase shadowsidiom concede defeat fallen give give in go go down knuckle non-winning say say uncleidiom tail take a batteringidiom unwinnable whipsaw You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Being & falling ill Death and dying succumb | American Dictionarysuccumb verb[ I ] us/səˈkʌm/ to lose the determination to oppose something, or to give up and accept something that you first opposed: She succumbed to temptation and had a second helping of ice cream. If you succumb to an illness, you die from it. succumb | Business Englishsuccumb verb[ I ] formaluk /səˈkʌm/us to lose the determination to oppose something, or to accept defeat: succumb to sthThe company succumbed to a $41bn bid from its arch rival. Examples of succumbsuccumb The intuition is that healthier workers have greater productivity, since workers are more able to work diligently, for longer hours, without succumbing to debilitation. They even cried and succumbed to hysteria, hitherto seen as a specifically female malady. An advantage of large seed size: tolerating rather than succumbing to seed predators. Most likely, he had succumbed to his serious illness. Instead, brains succumbed to brawn with dreadful results. In contemporary controls >90% of neonates succumbed to pulmonary hypoplasia. With little access to medical care, many of them succumbed to exhaustion, starvation and disease. The church itself, the most characteristic of all medieval institutions, also succumbed to this decline, and in some instances, became a partner of national government. When he succumbs to the charms of the ' unknown' woman, she unmasks, then leaves him. Cowling has not succumbed, in his advancing years, to any tendency to become accommodating. Older people are characterised by the different elements of anti-ageing science as having lost their good looks, succumbed to disease, become overwhelmed by senility, and as surrendering to death. She serves to promote consumption, not to partake of it; rather than succumbing to the cap-buying frenzy, she continues to go about "more shabby than ever" (169; ch. 12). While this choice may eliminate fear of vertigo, it sometimes leaves the author open to the charge of succumbing to the occasionally dubious authority of her primary and secondary sources. 108 societal bonds of house organizations were unable to endure the pressures of political catastrophe, and ultimately the houses succumbed to burdens placed on the broader systems of politicoeconomic organization. We were not able to determine whether certain variables protected some children from later harm while other families succumbed to dynamic stressors or lack of resources. See all examples of succumb These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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