Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SUC-CUMB'
SUC-CUMB', v.i. [L. succumbo; sub and cumbo, cubo, to lie down.]
- To yield; to submit; as, to succumb to a foreign power.
- To yield; to sink unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities.
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