succumb

verb4

1. •
   To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.

   • Thai culture as in many other Asian cultures, is succumbing to the influence of westernization.
2. •
   To give up, or give in.
3. •
   (euphemistic) To die.

   • Upon returning to his flat, he discovered much to his dismay, that his ficus benjamina had succumbed. — 1976
4. •
   To overwhelm or bring down.

   • He has not allowed the burn and his subsequent injury to succumb him, but to make him forever different but also, I think, forever better. — 2012