| 词汇 | succumbed |
| 释义 | succumbed past simple and past participle ofsuccumb 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 down knuckle meet non-winning say say uncleidiom succumb take a batteringidiom unwinnable whipsaw You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Being & falling ill Death and dying Examples of succumbedsuccumbed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. People practising coitus interruptus don't seem to have succumbed to all those terrible nervous complaints against which we are so frequently warned by psychiatrists. His words and deeds defined the bad citizen inversely : one who succumbed to self-interested ambition and subordinated the public good to the personal. His family and his family's doctor sequester him on the estate not because he has succumbed to disease but because they have succumbed to paranoia. The old and the new are neatly juxtaposed here, as apprenticeship succumbed to ' modern ' developments (p. 241). He developed endocarditis on his pulmonary valve 2 weeks later and succumbed shortly after, following a probable pulmonary embolus. They even cried and succumbed to hysteria, hitherto seen as a specifically female malady. Twenty-two percent of the patients succumbed during the first attack, and 16% of survivors had a second myocardial infarction. Unfortunately, however, the next sera in this study were obtained at 90 days, by which time all the dying bats had succumbed. No rabies virus was isolated from the saliva of animals that succumbed to the disease, nor from the control animals. These stories, which provided identity, gradually faded as memories succumbed to the inexorable destruction caused by illness. This social order flourished for more than a thousand years but eventually succumbed to foreign invasion and the imposition of colonial rule. 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. These larvae eventually succumbed only during periods of more prolonged arrested transpiration. 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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