succumb
verb [I] FORMAL
to
lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat
The
town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery
for more than two months.
I'm
afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.
I
felt sure it would only be a matter of time before he succumbed to
my charms.
He
wanted to be an actor but succumbed to parental pressure to be respectable
and trained as a lawyer.
(formal) If you succumb to an illness,
you start to suffer from it.
Thousands
of cows have succumbed to the disease in the past few months.