Dictionary entry

Succumb

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Suc‐cumb″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Succumbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Succumbing.] [L. succumbere; sub under + cumbere (in comp.), akin to cubare to lie down. See Incumbent, Cubit.] To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.