1LOSE A GAME, COMPETITION, OR WARCONTROL#to stop opposing someone or something that is stronger than you, and allow them to take control 屈服,屈从;不再抵抗SYN give in
succumb to
Succumbing to pressure from the chemical industry, Governor Blakely amended the regulations.
屈服于化工行业的压力,布莱克利州长修改了条例。
Gina succumbed to temptation and had a second serving of cake.
吉娜抵挡不住诱惑,吃了第二份蛋糕。
2MIILLif you succumb to an illness, you become very ill or die of it 患重病;死于〔某疾病〕
succumb to
About 400,000 Americans succumb each year to smoking-related illnesses.
每年大约有 40 万名美国人死于吸烟引起的疾病。
Examples from the Corpus
succumb• Both times, however, he succumbed.• Lewis succumbed to cancer in 1985.• Reacting to Maj. Botha's statement anti-apartheid groups said they believed that he had succumbed to government pressure to protect Buthelezi.• It might have been true once - and she was glad now that she had never succumbed to Hugh's importuning.• Will Stansted succumb to majorexpansion?• People would succumb to temptation and revert to familiar if inefficient form.• We can not, we will not succumb to the darkimpulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere.
succumb to• The country has not yet succumbed tointernational pressure to stop nuclear testing.
Originsuccumb
(1400-1500)Frenchsuccomber, from Latinsuccumbere, from sub- ( → SUB-) + cumbere“to lie down”