succumbed
past simple and past participle ofsuccumb
| 单词 | succumbed |
| 释义 | succumbed past simple and past participle ofsuccumb succumb verb[I] formaluk/səˈkʌm/us/səˈkʌm/C2 tolosethedeterminationtoopposesomething; toacceptdefeat: Thetownfinallysuccumbed lastweekafter beingpoundedwithheavyartilleryfor more than twomonths. I'mafraidI succumbedtotemptationand had apieceofcheesecake. Ifeltsureit would only be amatteroftimebefore he succumbedtomycharms. C2 todieorsufferbadlyfrom anillness: Thousands ofcowshave succumbedtothediseasein the past fewmonths. to stop living
Losing and being defeated
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Being & falling ill Death and dying Examplesofsuccumbedsuccumbed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. People practising coitus interruptus don't seem to havesuccumbedto all those terrible nervous complaints against which we are so frequently warned by psychiatrists. From theCambridge English Corpus His words and deeds defined the bad citizen inversely : one whosuccumbedto self-interested ambition and subordinated the public good to the personal. From theCambridge English Corpus His family and his family's doctor sequester him on the estate not because he hassuccumbedto disease but because they havesuccumbedto paranoia. From theCambridge English Corpus The old and the new are neatly juxtaposed here, as apprenticeshipsuccumbedto ' modern ' developments (p. 241). From theCambridge English Corpus He developed endocarditis on his pulmonary valve 2 weeks later andsuccumbedshortly after, following a probable pulmonary embolus. From theCambridge English Corpus They even cried andsuccumbedto hysteria, hitherto seen as a specifically female malady. From theCambridge English Corpus Twenty-two percent of the patientssuccumbedduring the first attack, and 16% of survivors had a second myocardial infarction. From theCambridge English Corpus Unfortunately, however, the next sera in this study were obtained at 90 days, by which time all the dying bats hadsuccumbed. From theCambridge English Corpus No rabies virus was isolated from the saliva of animals thatsuccumbedto the disease, nor from the control animals. From theCambridge English Corpus These stories, which provided identity, gradually faded as memoriessuccumbedto the inexorable destruction caused by illness. From theCambridge English Corpus This social order flourished for more than a thousand years but eventuallysuccumbedto foreign invasion and the imposition of colonial rule. From theCambridge English Corpus Most likely, he hadsuccumbedto his serious illness. From theCambridge English Corpus Instead, brainssuccumbedto brawn with dreadful results. From theCambridge English Corpus In contemporary controls >90% of neonatessuccumbedto pulmonary hypoplasia. From theCambridge English Corpus These larvae eventuallysuccumbedonly during periods of more prolonged arrested transpiration. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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