succumb

verb

1. (intransitive)To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

   “succumb to temptation”

   “succumb under misfortunes”

   “Thai culture as in many other Asian cultures, is succumbing to the influence of westernization.”

   “Jones was called into action to deny Ruiz with a fine tackle before succumbing to his injury.”

   “Sadly, the independent bookshop that occupied a room in the southern station building has succumbed to closure, due to the pandemic.”

2. (intransitive)To give up, or give in.
3. (euphemistic, intransitive)To die.

   “succumb to pneumonia”

   “Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed.”

4. (transitive)To overwhelm or bring down.

   “He has not allowed the burn and his subsequent injury to succumb him, but to make him forever different but also, I think, forever better.”

   “She had run away with Chiwi to San Jose when he was a year and half old; only to succumb him to the abuse of his aunt.”

   “Known to be genuinely cheerful, every few months an unseen shadow would nevertheless succumb him, delivering a two-week melancholic stew of resentment and depression.”