Definition of 'succumb'. succumb. If you succumb to temptation or pressure, you do something that you want to do, or that other people want you to do, although you feel it might be wrong. Don't succumb to the temptation to have just one cigarette. The Minister said his country would never succumb to pressure.
Often by placing their characters in jeopardy. Here are some things that create suspense: 1  when the reader knows something the characters don't. 2  when the reader doesn't know something the characters do.  when the reader knows something is going to happen, but doesn't know what it will be.
a feeling of excitement or anxiety when you do not know what will happen next [âª tension] in suspense. They kept us in suspense for over two hours. Come on then, tell me what happened; the suspense is killing me (=I feel very excited or anxious because I do not know what will happen next). She couldn't bear the suspense a moment longer. suspense novel/story/movie etc (=one which is exciting because you do not know what will happen next)