SUCCUMB


Meaning of SUCCUMB in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ səkʌm ]

( succumbs, succumbing, succumbed)

If you succumb to temptation or pressure, you do something that you want to do, or that other people want you to do, although you feel it might be wrong. ( FORMAL )

Don’t succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette...

The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure.

= give in

VERB : V to n , V to n

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