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succumb

/suh-kuhm/US // səˈkʌm //UK // (səˈkʌm) //

屈服,屈服于,屈从于,屈从

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to give way to superior force; yield: to succumb to despair.
    • : to yield to disease, wounds, old age, etc.; die.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdie or surrender
Forms: succumbing
Synonyms
bow鞠躬,弓箭手,弓箭,躬身break down分解,崩溃,溃败,破解buckle扣子,带扣,搭扣,表扣capitulate俯首称臣,屈服,投降cave in在地陷cease停止,停止执行,终止,停止使用defer延期,推迟,延迟,押后give in让步,让步于,放弃,放弃吧give way让路,让位,让步,让道go down下去,下来,下去了,下降pass away过世,离世,去世,逝世perish消灭,殒命,毁灭,殒落quit退出,辞职,戒掉wilt枯萎,萎缩,凋谢,发蔫yield产量,屈服,收益,收益率accede加入,签署,签署协议cave山洞,洞穴,洞窟,洞口collapse崩溃,坍塌,崩塌,塌陷croak呱呱叫,呱呱坠地,呱呱叫声,呱呱乱叫decease去世,死亡,逝世,死者demise灭亡,消亡,逝世,灭顶之灾depart启程,出发,遣散,启程前往drop下降,跌落,掉落,滴expire过期,过期的,过期了,过期后fall坠落,跌倒,跌落,摔倒fold折叠,褶皱,折,折痕go去,走,前往,走吧knuckle指关节,指关节部位,指关节部,指关节处pass通过,通过了,通,通过的submit提交,递交,呈交,呈报eat crow吃乌鸦嘴,吃乌鸦嘴吧,食乌鸦嘴,吃乌乌fall victim to沦为,沦落为,沦落到,沦陷于flake out剥落,剥光了,剥落了,剥光give in to屈服于,徇情,徇私,徇私舞弊give out放出,放出了,发放,放出消息give up the ghost弃鬼,弃影,弃影而去,弃影而行go under下去,下去了,下降,下来knuckle under归心似箭,归心似箭地,归心似箭的meet waterloo迎接滑铁卢,遇见滑铁卢,遇到滑铁卢,邂逅滑铁卢pack it in打包,装入,收拾起来,收拾好show white flag升白旗,白旗显示,挂白旗,悬挂白旗take the count清点人数,记数,数一数,数数看throw in the towel甩手掌柜,甩手不干了,弃权,甩手不干

Examples

  • Altogether, the team watched the brain activity of 39 people as they grappled with sticking with their choice or succumbing to peer pressure.

  • Put an Angus bull on a tropical pasture and “he’s probably going to last maybe a month before he succumbs to the environment,” says Oatley, while a Nelore bull carrying Angus sperm would have no problem with the climate.

  • Benedict herself succumbed to heart trouble several years later, in 1948.

  • Instead of succumbing to the frog’s digestive juices, an eaten Regimbartia attenuata traverses the amphibian’s throat, swims through the stomach, slides along the intestines and climbs out the frog’s butt, alive and well.

  • In the 19th century, soldiers sent to Haiti by Napoleon Bonaparte to quash rebellion succumbed to yellow fever, leading to Haitian independence and Napoleon’s sale of the territory of Louisiana to the United States.

  • Salia was the third patient to be treated in Nebraska, but the first to succumb to the disease.

  • Because we are surrounded by a world that demands we submit, succumb, and believe in nothing.

  • In the 21st century, however, we suppress the magic of it and succumb to the fear of it.

  • We've already seen Don resist temptation, and succumb to it, and resist it again.

  • Depending on the strain, anywhere from 50% to 90% of patients succumb within two weeks of infection.

  • And yet we must go on in one direction or the other or else succumb to sheer lassitude and overpowering drowsiness.

  • In short, was she or was she not the sort of woman to succumb to his attack?

  • The people of the expedition must either conquer or succumb.

  • By the time we had begun our examination Mary began to succumb to her mother's suggestions, and began to feel a trifle indisposed.

  • In the fort of Attock, Captain Herbert held out for a while, but in the end was forced to succumb.

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