SUCCUMB

[verb] [I] [formal] - to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeatThe town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.I'm afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.I felt sure it would only be a matter of time before he succumbed to my charms.He wanted to be an actor but succumbed to parental pressure to be respectable and trained as a lawyer.(formal) If you succumb to an illness, you start to suffer from it.Thousands of cows have succumbed to the disease in the past few months.