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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Succumbed

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Succumbing

[L.

succumbere

;

sub

under +

cumbere

(in comp.), akin to

cubare

to lie down. See

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly;

as, to

succumb

under calamities; to

succumb

to disease.

Verb.

[L. succumbo; sub and cumbo, cubo, to lie down.]

To yield; to submit; as, to succumb to a foreign power.

To yield; to sink unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities.