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succumb to
verb as in catch
verb as in contract
Example Sentences
More than 1 million people succumb to drug-resistant infections every year, and the death toll could reach nearly 2 million per year by 2050.
Trump famously does not drink after watching his brother and others succumb to alcoholism.
“I understand it to be a buoyant nature when you are possessed. You do succumb to being a conduit for the communication of ancestral knowledge and information.”
After Jackson’s ‘80s peak, as hip-hop became the dominant commercial force in pop music, he spoke with sadness and insight about how music designed to reflect real-world pain and neglect could also succumb to it. Jones, the founder and chairman of Vibe magazine whose daughter Kidada was engaged to Shakur at the time of his death, and Jones said for “the rest of my life” he’d pursuing peace within Black music.
I would willingly succumb to them.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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