succeed
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- succede (dated)
Etymology[edit]
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”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
succeed (third-person singular simple present succeeds, present participle succeeding, simple past and past participle succeeded)
- To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of.
- The king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne.
- Autumn succeeds summer.
- To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful.
- (obsolete, rare) To fall heir to; to inherit.
- So, if the issue of the elder son succeed before the younger, I am king.
- To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- Destructive effects […] succeeded the curse.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 49
- 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.
- Sir Thomas Browne
- To support; to prosper; to promote.
- Dryden
- Succeed my wish and second my design.
- Dryden
- 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 the death of the occupant.
- To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve.
- To go under cover.
Antonyms[edit]
- (follow in order): precede
- (obtain the object desired; accomplish what is attempted or intended): fail, fall on one's face
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from succeed
Related terms[edit]
Terms etymologically related to succeed
Translations[edit]
To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of
To obtain the object desired; to accomplish what is attempted or intended; to have a prosperous issue or termination; to be successful
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To fall heir to; to inherit
To come after; to be subsequent or consequent to; to follow; to pursue
To support; to prosper; to promote
To come in the place of another person, thing, or event; to come next in the usual, natural, or prescribed course of things
Specifically: To ascend the throne after the removal the death of the occupant
To descend, as an estate or an heirloom, in the same family; to devolve
To go under cover
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