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To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.
Origin: L. Succumbere; sub under + cumbere (in comp), akin to cubare to lie down. See Incumbent, Cubit.
(01 Mar 1998)
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