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Discover Ludwig'succumbing' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is used to refer to something being overcome by an external force, usually unwillingly. For example, "The small town was eventually succumbing to the pressure of the larger city nearby."
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succumbing
verb
Present participle of succumb
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And if you do happen to get to the top of the road without succumbing, then there are another seven places to buy a cup in and around the immediate vicinity of the station itself.
The women interviewed were roundly mocked for succumbing to the marketing of health-food companies' (there's one called Rawpothecary) cleanses aimed at their daughters.
England arrived in Perth 2-0 down, having been obliterated in Brisbane by 277 runs and succumbing to final day jitters in Adelaide as their batsmen collapsed to 129 all out, en route to a six-wicket defeat.
It has been the tournament of fallen heroes, Wawrinka beating his compatriot and 17-slam champion Roger Federer in the quarters, with Djokovic succumbing when least expected – and refusing to blame fatigue after a semi-final of more than four hours against Andy Murray, completed the previous day.
Along with Tom Latham, who was caught behind early on, and the mighty hitter Martin Guptill, who hit a couple of sweet sixes in his 35 before succumbing to Jack Shantry's slower ball, he is fighting for a place in the XI for Thursday's first Test.
Ged Grebby, SRTRC's chief executive, said the findings raised serious questions about the information young people were getting from the media and sharing online, and warned that more needed to be done to prevent them succumbing to far-right ideologies.
But Mr Dean's "clarification" of his position on the caucuses, coming as it did after several other "clarifications" on everything from Osama bin Laden to taxes, has damaged his reputation as a straight talker.More generally, Mr Dean is succumbing to a common problem for front-runners: everybody else gangs up on you.
Late polling by Lord Ashcroft suggested the Tories' strengths had had their traditional effect 71% of people who admitted to voting Tory cited the fact that its leader "would make the best prime minister".For those who worry about the ability of European politicians to enact painful reforms to their indebted economies, without succumbing to populists, this was encouraging.
A little later Thomas Malthus saw its innate scarcity as ensuring eventual catastrophe in the face of exponential population growth.Instead of succumbing to catastrophe Western countries found ways to work around land's scarcity, some of them ingenious skyscrapers, artificial fertiliser, railways, suburbs and some nefarious dispossessing the oppressed and colonised.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Xerox was the incumbent in photocopiers, rebuffing "sustaining" challenges by IBM and Kodak to make better copiers for the top end of the market, before succumbing to the disruption from simple and cheap table-top copiers from Canon.
WITH the help of the IMF and other multilateral agencies, Uruguay's President Jorge Batlle has been striving to stop his tiny country succumbing to contagion from its neighbour Argentina, which is in a deep depression after defaulting on its debts.
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