Succumb vs Befall - What's the difference?
succumb | befall |
(lb) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
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(lb) To give up, or give in.
(lb) To die.
To happen.
To happen to.
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Case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.
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* 1990 , India. Parliament. House of the People, India. Parliament. Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha debates :
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* 1996 , Thomas Pfau, Rhonda Ray Kercsmar, Rhetorical and cultural dissolution in romanticism :
In intransitive terms the difference between succumb and befall
is that succumb is to die while befall is to happen.As a noun befall is
case; instance; circumstance; event; incident; accident.succumb
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Verb
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Synonyms
* (die) See alsobefall
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Verb
- Temptation befell me.
- I beseech your grace that I may know / The worst that may befall me.
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Derived terms
* befalling * misbefallNoun
(en noun)- Or he had tolde al his befall .
- This is proposed to be done by moving necessary amendment in this befall to the Finance Bill.
- He said "I would advise people to cultivate frugal habits. I will not commit the crime of making them helpless by saying that they have no responsibility whatever in the befall of calamities like old age, illness, accident, etc. [...]"
- [...], the word "care" asserting itself subliminally in somewhat the same way that "fall" does in the "befall " of "Infant Joy."