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.
novela de suspense, pelÃ­cula de suspense. a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie. a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account. a narrative about someone who investigates crimes and obtains evidence leading to their resolution.