cubi-, cub-, cumb-, cubit- +

1. The period of time during which someone occupies an official post.
2. An official position, especially in a church or political organization.
3. The holding of an office or ecclesiastical benefice.
4. The quality or state of being incumbent.
5. The position or term of an incumbent.
6. A duty or obligation.

1. Someone who is currently holding an official position; especially, in a church or political organization.
2. Something which is necessary as a result of a duty, responsibility, or obligation: "It is incumbent upon us to observe the responsibilities or our assigned duties."
3. Archaic or very early usage: resting, lying, leaning, or pressing on something: "Because of the summer heat, he was incumbent upon the cool grass."

1. Lying down with the face to the ground.
2. Prone; lying face downward.
3. A reference to a plant stem that grows along the ground without taking root.
4. Etymology: from Latin procumbent-, present participle of procumbere "to fall forward"; from cumbere, "to lie down".

1. The posture of leaning, reclining or lying.
2. To rest; to repose; an idle state.

1. Lying down in a position of comfort or rest.
2. A plant or animal part that rests or leans against something else.
3. Leaning; reclining; as the recumbent posture of the Romans at their meals.
4. Reposing; inactive; idle.

1. To lose one's will to oppose something or to give up and accept something that someone was first opposed to.
2. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; to give up or to give in.
3. Succumbing to, like passing on, has become a euphemism, or a less offensive substitute, for dying.

In the context of an illness, to succumb to an illness is to stop opposing it, to no longer battle it, but to die from it.

As with many of our words, succumb came from Latin via France. In Latin succumbere "to fall down" or "to yield" came from French succomber and crossed the English Channel in the 1400s.

1. Lying or resting on something else.
2. Situated above; overhanging.
3. Exerted from above; such as, pressure.
4. A situation in which someone or something is lying or resting on or above an unspecified or a specific thing or place.

1. Lying or resting and usually exerting pressure on something else
2. Exerted from above; such as, pressure.