succumb
/səˈkʌm/ v [I]Definition
› to lose the determination to oppose something, or to give up and accept something that you first opposed: She succumbed to temptation and had a second helping of ice cream. › If you succumb to an illness, you die from it.
(Definition of succumb v from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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