Tuesday's Word:
succumb
suc·cumb 
- Pronunciation:
- \sə-ˈkəm\
- Function:
- intransitive verb
- Etymology:
- French & Latin; French succomber, from Latin succumbere, from sub- + -cumbere to lie down; akin to Latin cubare to lie
- Date:
- 1604

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El Bingo Gringo |
Word o' the Day (try using it today in your vocabulary) |
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Tuesday's Word:
1 : to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or
desire <succumb to temptation> 2 : to be brought to an end (as death) by the effect of destructive or disruptive forces
synonyms see yield
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UndifferentCow |
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I've succumbed to caffeine.. yay me!
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PassionatePiscesMan |
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She succed til I cumbed
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Zzunk |
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In San Diego's harbor, you can watch a succomb and go.
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Bowie.thehole |
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I succumb whereas my bf drinks it.
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El Bingo Gringo |
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Now that's just bad taste.
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ashley madison |
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I shall succumb to a major mexican food craving later today
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El Bingo Gringo |
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aye carumba!
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UrbanSprawl |
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nomi succumbs
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El Bingo Gringo |
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I just used it in a meeting and grinned a little when I said it.
There's a hawt blonde there that's cool. I wonder if she caught on. Succumb is so suggestive. :-) |
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holysmoke |
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this thread succs cumb out of my asshole
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El Bingo Gringo |
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jejune
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1 : lacking nutritive value <jejune
diets> 2 : devoid of significance or interest
: dull <jejune
lectures> 3 : juvenile, puerile
<jejune reflections on life and art>
synonyms see insipid
- je·june·ly adverb
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memyselfand1 |
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jejune just ended, it's now jejuly
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Sigvold |
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Woody Allen says the word jejune in his movies sometimes.
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bob2559 |
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My cousin the jarhead had basic training at Camp Jejune.
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Listentothis1 |
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Jejunes don't celebrate Christmas.
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El Bingo Gringo |
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comeuppance
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: a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts
Last Edited By: El Bingo Gringo
07/02/09 01:43 PM.
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