succumb: [15] Someone who succumbs to something is etymologically ‘lying down under’ it. The word comes via Old French succomber from Latin succumbere, a compound verb formed from the prefix sub- ‘under’ and -cumbere ‘lie’. This verbal element also produced English incumbent and recumbent, and the non-nasalized version of its stem lies behind covey, incubate, incubus, and succubus. => covey, incubate, incumbent, recumbent
succumb (v.)
late 15c., from Old French succomber "succumb, die, lose one's (legal) case," and directly from Latin succumbere "submit, surrender, yield, be overcome; sink down; lie under; cohabit with," from sub "down" (see sub-) + -cumbere "take a reclining position," related to cubare "lie down" (see cubicle). Originally transitive; sense of "sink under pressure" is first recorded c. 1600. As a euphemism for "to die," from 1849. Related: Succumbed; succumbing.
例文
1. I was determined not to succumb to the virus.
私は決してウイルスに屈服しません。
2.The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure.
首相は、彼の国は決して圧迫に屈しないと言った。
3.Don 't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette.
誘惑に負けないで、タバコを1本吸ってもだめです。
4.Malnourished children are more likely to succumb to infections.
栄養不良の子供は感染で死ぬ可能性が高い。
5.He said the United States was not willing to engage in a search for partial solutions-to succumb ，asheput it，to a siren song.