English verb: succumb | |||
1. | succumb (communication) consent reluctantly | ||
Synonyms | buckle under, give in, knuckle under, yield | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s to somebody | ||
Broader (hypernym) | accept, consent, go for | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | accede, bow, defer, give in, submit | ||
2. | succumb (stative) be fatally overwhelmed | ||
Synonyms | yield | ||
Pattern of use | Somebody ----s. Somebody ----s PP | ||
Broader (hypernym) | buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it | ||
Antonyms | make it, pull round, pull through, survive, come through | ||