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Succumb

To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

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Manner of action 4

Accede 76% connected

To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bow 76% connected

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Defer 76% connected

To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Submit 76% connected

To let down; to lower.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Broader term 11

Accept 76% connected

To receive with a consenting mind (something offered); as, to accept a gift; -- often followed by of.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Choke 76% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Consent 76% connected

To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Croak 76% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Decease 76% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Die 76% connected

of Dice

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Exit 76% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Expire 76% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Perish 76% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 1

Yield 92% connected

To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to pay; as, money at interest yields six or…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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