succumb

Other forms of succumb

past tense

succumbed·

present participle

succumbing·

third person

succumbs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about succumb

What does succumb mean?

succumb means "consent reluctantly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in succumb?

succumb has 2 syllables: suc-cumb. The stress falls on "cumb". In IPA it is /səˈkʌm/.

What is another word for succumb?

Close synonyms include yield, give in, knuckle under, buckle under, yield. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of succumb?

The recorded antonyms are survive.

Is succumb a common word?

succumb is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with succumb?

6 words rhyme with succumb. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.