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Word Meanings - SUCCUMB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • RESIGNATION
    1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
  • FAINT
    feint, false, faint, F. feint, p.p. of feindre to feign, suppose, 1. Lacking strength; weak; languid; inclined to swoon; as, faint with fatigue, hunger, or thirst. 2. Wanting in courage, spirit, or energy; timorous; cowardly; dejected; depressed;
  • CONSENTANEOUS
    Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
  • DROOPER
    One who, or that which, droops.
  • SUGGESTER
    One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
  • FURNISHMENT
    The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
  • SUGGEST
    1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
  • COMPLY
    are of different origin: cf. It. complire to compliment, finish, 1. To yield assent; to accord; agree, or acquiesce; to adapt one's self; to consent or conform; -- usually followed by with. Yet this be sure, in nothing to comply, Scandalous or
  • YIELD
    pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
  • PRESENT
    one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • BLENCH
    deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
  • PRESENTIVE
    Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
  • SUGGESTRESS
    A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
  • PROPOSER
    1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
  • SUGGESTION
    Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • PRESENTANEOUS
    Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
  • REFER
    1. To carry or send back. Chaucer. 2. Hence: To send or direct away; to send or direct elsewhere, as for treatment, aid, infirmation, decision, etc.; to make over, or pass over, to another; as, to refer a student to an author; to refer a beggar
  • SHRINKINGLY
    In a shrinking manner.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
  • PRECONSENT
    A previous consent.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • IMMIGRANT
    One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
  • PREFERMENT
    1. The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference. Natural preferment of the one . . . before the other. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion. Neither
  • MALLOWWORT
    Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.

 

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