succeed
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /səkˈsiːd/
succeed (succeeds, present participle succeeding; 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.
- 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.
- (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.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- 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.
- 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica
- To support; to prosper; to promote.
- 1697, John Dryden translating Virgil, The Aeneid
- Succeed my wish and second my design.
- 1697, John Dryden translating Virgil, The Aeneid
- 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.
- (follow in order) come after; see also Thesaurus:succeed
- (support; prosper; promote) do well, flourish; see also Thesaurus:prosper
- (follow in order) precede; see also Thesaurus:precede
- (obtain the object desired; accomplish what is attempted or intended) fail, fall on one's face
- (support; prosper; promote) fail
- French: succéder
- German: nachfolgen
- Italian: succedere
- Portuguese: seguir
- Russian: сле́довать
- Spanish: suceder
- French: réussir, avoir du succès
- German: erfolgreich sein, Erfolg haben, gelingen, geraten
- Italian: riuscire
- Portuguese: ter/obter sucesso/êxito, conseguir
- Russian: преуспе́ть
- Spanish: conseguir
- German: nachfolgen
- Portuguese: suceder
- Spanish: heredar
- Portuguese: seguir
- Spanish: suceder
- Spanish: suceder
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