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succumbingverbpresent participle of succumb to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)he finally succumbed and let his wife get rid of his dilapidated easy chair blinking, bowing, budging, capitulating, conceding, giving in, knuckling under, quitting, relenting, submitting, surrendering, yielding acquiescingdeferring saying uncle, throwing in the towel(also throwing in the sponge) resisting contending, fighting, holding offbattling, breasting, combating(or combatting), confronting, countering, defying, facing, meeting, objecting, opposing, repellingthwarting, withstanding to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)refused to succumb to her fears and defiantly walked through the dark cemetery bowing, caving (in), giving in, submitting, surrendering, yielding catering (to), gratifying, indulging, wallowingacquiescing (to), conceding (to)buckling (under), knuckling undergiving over (to) holding off, resisting battling, breasting, combating(or combatting), confronting, countering, defying, facing, fighting, meeting, objecting, opposing, repellingthwarting, withstandingrejectingbridling, checking, constraining, curbing, inhibiting, restraining, stifling to stop livingthe patient lay so still and pale that everyone thought he had succumbed, and then he opened his eyes checking out, conking (out), croaking(slang), deceasing, demising, departing, dropping, dying, ending, exiting, expiring, falling, flatlining, going, kicking in(slang), kicking off(slang), parting, passing away, passing (on), pegging out(chiefly British), perishing, popping off, stepping out predeceasingconsuming, disappearing, drying up, fading, failing biting the dust, buying it(or buying the farm), giving up the ghost, kicking the bucket, snuffing it(British) breathing, living coming to, revivinglingeringbeing, existing, subsistingflourishing, prospering, thriving to yield to the control or power of enemy forcesthe doctor worked tirelessly until finally he, too, succumbed to the fever capitulating, falling, giving up, knuckling under, submitting, surrendering bowing, buckling, caving (in), collapsing, giving (in)handing over, relinquishinglosingconceding, failing, folding enduring, standing bucking, defying, fighting, opposing, repelling, resisting, withstandingbeating, overcoming, winningconquering, prevailing, triumphing |