Both Uses of
succumb
in
Interview with the Vampire
- The family would succumb to a mysterious fever which dried up the very blood in their bodies!' he said, now mocking a barker's tone.†
Part 1 *
- She'd always been the 'lost child' to her victims, the 'orphan,' and now it seemed she would be something else, something wicked and shocking to the passers-by who succumbed to her.†
Part 3succumbed = consented reluctantly; or suffered defeat
Definition:
consent reluctantly; or suffer defeat