succomber
- Examples
Les filles succombaient plus à la vanité que les garçons. | The girls fell to vanity more than the boys. |
Une fois de plus, ils succombaient à la tentation. | Again they were overcome by temptation. |
Seth a scellé le coffre avec le fil et l'a jeté dans le fleuve le Nil et a pris son endroit pendant que le pharaon et l'Egypte succombaient à sa règle. | Seth sealed the chest with lead and threw it into the River Nile and took his place as Pharaoh and Egypt succumbed to his rule. |
Pendant l'hiver 1812, les troupes envahissantes de Napoléon succombaient au froid et aux attaques de l'armée russe. | In the winter of 1812, Napoleon's invading troops were succumbing to the cold and the Russian army's attacks. |
Une fois là-bas, elle réalisa très vite que plus de patients succombaient à des infections contractées sur place, dans ces salles immondes et fétides, qu'à leurs blessures de guerre. | Once there, she swiftly realized that more patients were dying of infections that they caught there, in the filthy, fetid wards, than they were of battle wounds. |
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