Both Uses of
succumb
in
Angels & Demons
- The skeleton hovered a moment, like a tentative lover, and then with a sticky crackling, it succumbed to gravity and peeled away.†
Chpt 93-94 *
- Langdon succumbed, his head spiraling like the smoke overhead.†
Chpt 99-100
Definition:
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(succumb) consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat