succumbed
v.v. to stop fighting against something stronger than you. You use this when you finally give in to a temptation, an illness, or a person's pressure.
v. to yield to a superior force or an overpowering desire; to cease resistance. Often implies a finality, such as dying from an illness or failing to resist a moral temptation.
He finally succumbed to the temptation and ate the cake.
After battling the infection for several weeks, the patient unfortunately succumbed to the illness late last night.
The committee eventually succumbed to intense public pressure and voted to overturn the controversial decision regarding the new park.
Intransitive verb that requires the preposition 'to' before the object.
he succumbed the pressurehe succumbed to the pressureSuccumb is an intransitive verb and must be followed by the preposition 'to' before its object.