succumb
Example Sentences
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He’d done well to ignore his mounting thirst and exhaustion today, and he certainly wouldn’t succumb to them now, when they were so close to the finish line.
From Literature
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There’s no need for an app!—I discovered I’d already inadvertently succumbed.
The siblings, who succumbed to smoke inhalation, were found in the living room about seven feet apart.
From Los Angeles Times
There was Kent Brantly, 27, a family physician who, owing to the grueling hours and oppressive African heat, had lost 30 pounds even before he succumbed to hemorrhagic fevers.
He kept the diagnosis secret from everyone but Strickland, eventually succumbing to the disease in October 1985.
From BBC
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