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Reluctant vs Succumb - What's the difference?

reluctant | succumb |

As an adjective reluctant

is opposing; offering resistance (to).

As a verb succumb is

(lb) to yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

reluctant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Opposing; offering resistance (to).
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.108:
    • There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
  • * 2008 , Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services , p. 222:
    • They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
  • Not wanting to take some action; unwilling.
    • She was reluctant to lend him the money

    Synonyms

    * unwilling, disinclined

    Related terms

    * reluctance * reluctantly

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    succumb

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (lb) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 21 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Fulham 0 - 5 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Jones was called into action to deny Ruiz with a fine tackle before succumbing to his injury.}}
  • (lb) To give up, or give in.
  • (lb) To die.

    • Synonyms

    * (die) See also