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is succumbing
verb
To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
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An abandoned school is succumbing to weeds.
Not that she is succumbing to a life of leisure.
He is succumbing rapidly to Parkinson's disease and dementia.
The fourth secret is succumbing to your addictions.
Even its stronghold in the video gaming business is succumbing to cheaper and nimbler rivals.
Another is succumbing to male sexual overperception bias, misperceiving a woman's friendliness as sexual interest.
But it's not just the Brontë Society that is succumbing to Brontëmania.
The paraglider's landing field in Les Praz is succumbing to new chalets.
Now even NBC, they say, is succumbing to the crude appeal of reality TV.
Others say the F.D.A. is succumbing to political pressure and treating women unfairly.
For now, Holmes's deepest terror is that he is succumbing to dementia.
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