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Succeed

//səkˈsiːd// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To follow something in sequence or time. transitive

    "Autumn succeeds summer."

  2. 2
    Misconstruction of secede. alt-of, misconstruction
  3. 3
    be the successor (of) wordnet
  4. 4
    To replace or supplant someone in order vis-à-vis an office, position, or title. transitive

    "The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne."

  5. 5
    attain success or reach a desired goal wordnet
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  1. 6
    To come after or follow; to be subsequent or consequent; (often with to). intransitive

    "Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin."

  2. 7
    To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to). intransitive

    "Following the death of his mother, he succeeded to the throne."

  3. 8
    To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things; to follow; hence, to come next in the possession of anything; (often with to).; To ascend the throne after the removal or death of the occupant. intransitive

    "Princess Buttercup succeeded to the throne as queen after King Willoughby died."

  4. 9
    To prevail in obtaining an intended objective or accomplishment; to prosper as a result or conclusion of a particular effort. intransitive

    "The persecution of any righteous practice has never succeeded in the face of history; in fact, it can expedite the collapse of the persecutory regime."

  5. 10
    To prosper or attain success and beneficial results in general. intransitive

    "voted most likely to succeed"

  6. 11
    To turn out, fare, do (well or ill). dated, intransitive

    "In some parts of Germany it is commonly believed that whatever is undertaken when the moon is on the increase succeeds well [...] whereas business undertaken in the wane of the moon is doomed to failure."

  7. 12
    To support; to prosper; to promote or give success to. transitive

    "Succeed my wish and second my design."

  8. 13
    To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve; (often with to). intransitive

    "A paterfamilias could arrange a marriage or emancipate a child without its mother's consent, and if the mother died intestate (possibly because her tutor refused to approve her will) her estate succeeded to her siblings, not to her husband or children, […]"

  9. 14
    To fall heir to; to inherit. obsolete, rare, transitive

    "Else let my brother die, / If not a feodary, but only he / Owe and succeed thy weakness."

  10. 15
    To go down or near (with to). intransitive, obsolete, rare

    "Who, ever as he saw him nigh succeed, / Gan cry aloud with horrible affright, […]"

Etymology

From Old French succeder, from Latin succedere (“to go under, go from under, come under, approach, follow, take the place of, receive by succession, prosper, be successful”).

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