succumbing
present participle ofsuccumb
| 单词 | succumbing |
| 释义 | succumbing present 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 Examplesofsuccumbingsuccumbing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The intuition is that healthier workers have greater productivity, since workers are more able to work diligently, for longer hours, withoutsuccumbingto debilitation. From theCambridge English Corpus In the absence of sudden death affected rabbits deteriorate and progressively lose body weight before eventuallysuccumbingto the disease. From theCambridge English Corpus Both men are perceived as having little moral fibre, and this is signified by theirsuccumbingto women. From theCambridge English Corpus But, how can we make sense of the possibility of the invention of traditions withoutsuccumbingto the comprehensive rationalist or hyper-rationalist temptation? From theCambridge English Corpus An advantage of large seed size: tolerating rather thansuccumbingto seed predators. From theCambridge English Corpus He chides grammarians for abandoning their mission to describe language andsuccumbinginstead to the lures of linguistic engineering and grammatical prescription. From theCambridge English Corpus Hyperactivated spermatozoa are short-lived,succumbingrapidly to metabolic exhaustion. From theCambridge English Corpus Or are tribes and tribal culturesuccumbingto the urbanization and nation-building processes? From theCambridge English Corpus Each of the ends - overcoming, coping with orsuccumbingto illness - intersects with the means of resistance, endurance or acceptance. From theCambridge English Corpus Unfortunately, in this veritable principia economica, we begin to see the historiansuccumbingto the lure of meta-theory. From theCambridge English Corpus These fictions are truthful to reality and useful to human beings insofar as they enable them t o realize, through artistic illusions, the absolute metaphysical truth withoutsuccumbingto it. From theCambridge English Corpus Chimneys fell due to the strength of the wind and lead gutters had to be replaced aftersuccumbingto the weight of snow. From theCambridge English Corpus While this choice may eliminate fear of vertigo, it sometimes leaves the author open to the charge ofsuccumbingto the occasionally dubious authority of her primary and secondary sources. From theCambridge English Corpus Results were expressed in terms of odds ratios of failure (succumbingto the well) for the treatment of interest relative to the reference state or treatment. From theCambridge English Corpus Benda accused contemporary writers and intellectuals of betraying their high artistic calling, and the universal values for which they ought to speak, andsuccumbingto partisanship. 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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