What's the difference between perish and succumb?

Perish


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
  • (v. t.) To cause perish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Not one life was lost – though of course millions of votes might well have perished in this inhospitable terrain.
  • (2) The groups of survived and perished animals differed (the difference was statistically significant) by the extent of coordination of the enzymatic lymphocyte systems: the correlation of enzymatic indices in the survived animals was greater than in the perished ones.
  • (3) Yesterday, Harry Patch died peacefully in his bed at his residential home in Wells, Somerset, a man who spent his last years urging his friends and many admirers never to forget the 9.7 million young men who perished during the 1914-18 war.
  • (4) The six trained together, were dispatched to Afghanistan together and, in the end, perished together when their armoured vehicle was hit by a massive Taliban bomb.
  • (5) The authors report about 3 cases of the congenital adreno-genital syndrome in first-born children with a high weight at birth (3900, 3600, and 4200 g) who perished in early infancy.
  • (6) Wet corn gluten feed is also an adequate supplement for raising dairy replacements, allowing more rapid utilization of this perishable feed resource by the dairy herd.
  • (7) Niger to ban women and children travelling in Sahara after 92 perish Read more The sub-Saharan migrants are determined.
  • (8) Final internal processing temperatures within the range of 63 to 74 degrees C did not alter the degree of botulinal inhibition in inoculated perishable canned comminuted cured pork abused at 27 degrees C. Adding hemoglobin to the formulation reduced residual nitrite after processing and decreased botulinal inhibition.
  • (9) In 1945 I got word that my two sons had died in the Leningrad blockade and my husband had perished fighting in Smolensk.
  • (10) Non-perishables – spaghetti, rice, flour, condensed milk, tomato sauce – come from the food bank.
  • (11) More than 30 of the 189 Americans who perished on the flight were from the state of New Jersey.
  • (12) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
  • (13) There was not only an increase in average days of survival of those that perished, but also a marked increase in the number of greater than 60-day survivors.
  • (14) After a crisis meeting at the Elysée on Friday morning, Hollande confirmed that all 118 people on board – 112 passengers and six Spanish crew – had perished.
  • (15) Your little country will forever be honoured as the site that made the Princess Diana thing look like a restrained wake for a loathed spinster who perished alone on a desert island.
  • (16) It became clear that there was no chance of a successful rescue and the children perished.
  • (17) The control group was composed of 7 practically healthy persons who had perished suddenly as a result of craniocerebral trauma.
  • (18) It was found that in the gills of minnow, the other mass fish in the northern rivers of the USSR, larvae of M. margaritifera cannot develop and perish.
  • (19) We're here to celebrate not only comrade Madiba but all the men and women who perished in the liberation war."
  • (20) When using in the lymphocytotoxic reaction lymphocytes stored in frozen condition the proportion of perished cells after thawing should not exceed 10-20%.

Succumb


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To yield; to submit; to give up unresistingly; as, to succumb under calamities; to succumb to disease.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast, albino rats and rabbits failed to succumb to overt disease by subcutaneous and intraperitoneal routes of inoculation.
  • (2) Adult animals succumbed to O2 lung toxicity in 3--5 days.
  • (3) In places it succumbs to over-commercialisation but this is still one of the finest medieval towns in Europe.
  • (4) Grosics did his best between the posts, but the team succumbed to Wales in a bruising play-off, thus failing to advance beyond the first stage.
  • (5) MAbs with high virus-neutralizing activity directed to one antigenic site of the HN protein delayed virus growth and significantly prolonged survival time, but all chickens eventually succumbed to infection.
  • (6) A fifth victim - an Israeli policeman - succumbed to his injuries late on Tuesday night.
  • (7) Splenectomy was performed on one twin at age seven years who survived a complicating pneumococcal septicaemia ten days after the procedure, but who succumbed to fulminating infection three years later.
  • (8) This lowered activity of the NADPH oxidase, with the resulting decreased O2 generation, might be responsible for the failure of the animals to control the parasitaemia; as a result they succumbed to the infection.
  • (9) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
  • (10) She succumbed to a series of infections that the pre-penicillin world had no drugs to treat.
  • (11) In vitro practically all common antibiotics except cephalosporins are active against nearly all natural isolates of Listeria monocytogenes; the therapeutic efficacy of antibiotic treatment is, however, rather limited, since up to 30% listeriosis patients will succumb to this infection.
  • (12) Mice transgenic for a c-myc gene driven by the IgH enhancer (E mu-myc) were shown to almost invariably develop lymphomas, 90% succumbing in the first 5 mo of life.
  • (13) The net effect however is beneficial since without metastasis the organism would have succumbed to the disease in its earliest stage.
  • (14) Unable to stand or swallow and forced to communicate through a computer, John Close, 54, a former musician, chose suicide in 2003 as his body succumbed to the remorseless grip of motor neurone disease.
  • (15) The facilitation of eclosion by adult colony members appears to be an obligatory process in the development of this species; pupae denied the aid of adult workers during eclosion are unable to remove the pupal cuticle and rapidly succumb.
  • (16) Speaking in Queensland earlier this month , Abbott boasted that “any other government, I suspect, would quickly succumb to the cries of the human rights lawyers”.
  • (17) All four patients succumbed, three in the emergency room and one on the eighth hospital day.
  • (18) Following inoculation with 0.25 X 10(6) organisms NF or NFA-fed hosts succumbed more rapidly than F, NFR, or NFU fed hosts (P less than 0.001).
  • (19) Five patients died in aplasia due to infections, one additional patient succumbed to HD-araC related CNS toxicity.
  • (20) "The leadership role that falls to Germany today is not only awakening historical ghosts all around us, but also tempts us to choose a unilateral national course or even to succumb to power fantasies of a 'German Europe'.