part of speech: verb
Sentence from text: Last spring, the Knight Ridder chain succumbed to pressure from its largest private investor and sold off its entire lineup of 32 papers to the McClatchy Co. for more than $4 billion.
Definition 1: to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire succumb to temptation 2: to be brought to an end (such as death) by the effect of destructive or disruptive forces
Synonyms: blink, bow, budge, capitulate, concede, give in, knuckle under, quit, relent, submit, surrender, yield
Antyonyms: resist
Other forms of word: succumbed; succumbing; succumbs
My sentence: Everyone had succumbed to the sickness, leaving Clara to do the heavy lifting.
First known use: 1604
History and Etymology: French & Latin; French succomber, from Latin succumbere, from sub- + -cumbere to lie down; akin to Latin cubare to lie