succumb

In the 19th century, soldiers sent to Haiti by Napoleon Bonaparte to quash rebellion succumbed to yellow fever, leading to Haitian independence and Napoleon’s sale of the territory of Louisiana to the United States.

Salia was the third patient to be treated in Nebraska, but the first to succumb to the disease.

Because we are surrounded by a world that demands we submit, succumb, and believe in nothing.

In the 21st century, however, we suppress the magic of it and succumb to the fear of it.

We've already seen Don resist temptation, and succumb to it, and resist it again.

Rather than retreat, she seduced him by falling into a trance and pretending to succumb to a bout of automatic writing.

For the first time, my stamina seemed inclined to succumb before it.

Do not fumble with it, or succumb to the insinuating temptation of clinging to what is so effective.

Was he likely to give in or to succumb to a woman like Mrs. Bell?

Oddly enough, the country where the movement began was the last to succumb completely.

“Why, I thought so myself,” said Morris, in a tone of discontent at having to succumb to the general belief.