Vocabulary
Succumb
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force.
Urdu meaning
مطیع ہونا، شکار، شکست مان لینا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Around 5,000 women in the country are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year; 60pc of them succumb to the disease.
- How long will it be before schools like Aitchison College and Doon School succumb to societal pressure and dismantle the gender barrier against girls?
- The problem, of course, is that when this topic or these figures are offered up, too many people succumb to the fallacy that more is always good.
Synonyms
yield, give in,capitulate, give way, submit,be overcome by, surrender, cave
Curator example
“we cannot merely give up and succumb to despair”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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